It was fun and innocent, a time of discovery for both of us. We lived with her family in Croydon for a bit, and at my mother’s in New York. ‘We modelled together, travelled together. So began a relationship that lasted two years, during which the pair were inseparable. ‘We hung out all night,’ recalls Sorrenti, ‘until we fell asleep on the grass in Hyde Park.’ He didn’t think he’d ever see Moss again, but weeks later they bumped into each other at a party. Mario Sorrenti recalls his early ’90s snapshots of Kate Moss On the occasion of his new book ‘Kate,’ photographer Mario Sorrenti discusses starting out his career, slowing down in the age of digital photography, and. After studying painting and sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he’d fallen in love with photography, and, in between castings, spent his days taking pictures. Sorrenti was 19 at the time, an aspiring artist trying to making ends meet by modelling. The images were seen by Calvin Klein at the time. In 1993 Mario created a series of intimate images of his then girlfriend Kate Moss, in the Virgin Islands. ‘She was chatty and funny and I remember sitting next to her, feeling like my heart had stopped.’ Born in Naples, Italy, Sorrenti grew up in New York and as a young adult quickly developed a love for experimenting with image making predominantly through photography, but also painting.

It was a shoot for Wella hair mousse, in London, 1991. It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box's covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context.

‘It sounds corny, but she swept me away,’ says the American photographer Mario Sorrenti of his first encounter with Kate Moss. Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures.

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