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Life experiences shape you as a human being and as an artist, and will therefor help carve out the way express yourself, both personally and artistically. For Nicole Anne Robbins, some of her life's most significant experiences came at a very young age, something she thinks made her into the artist she is today. She was born a twin and was raised on a farm in Central California. Her house burnt down when she was only 6 years old, and by the age 9 she had written a book, and had a camera in her hand at all times. "- My imagery - I think - explores all of my life's experiences, such as the landscape I grew up viewing, the camaraderie of being a twin, and the highs and lows that come with being expressive and emotionally sensitive."
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Ben Trovato is handing out a classic piece of equipment. And not only a classic, but a Yashica T4. Yes, you read it correctly, this is your chance to finally possess the same camera that the NYC based photographer Ryan McGinley used to photograph the iconic Kate Moss in her best poses, the camera that shot Lady Gaga twice for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and the camera that is known to be one of Terry Richardson and Juergen Teller's best kept secrets...
Life experiences shape you as a human being and as an artist, and will therefor help carve out the way express yourself, both personally and artistically. For Nicole Anne Robbins, some of her life's most significant experiences came at a very young age, something she thinks made her into the artist she is today. She was born a twin and was raised on a farm in Central California. Her house burnt down when she was only 6 years old, and by the age 9 she had written a book, and had a camera in her hand at all times. "- My imagery - I think - explores all of my life's experiences, such as the landscape I grew up viewing, the camaraderie of being a twin, and the highs and lows that come with being expressive and emotionally sensitive."
The amount of talent in the world can at times be overwhelming. And with this idea in mind, we here at Ben Trovato are pleased to introduce you to the work of the young and talented Laura Makabresku. She took up photography after receiving her first camera in high school as a method of expressing her thoughts, in addition to her love of writing. Currently residing in Cracow, Poland, Laura studies and works while simultaneously pursuing her passion. She says that Cracow, “is a place which inspires me subconsciously. It is an old Polish capitol and a very cultural place – I mean a city, where many many things that are concerning Polish literature and all kind of art started their life and lead it till today in old, narrow streets. Probably, it is the only city in Poland that I can live in, that I love and hate.”
Billy Rood’s fashion film Rather Lovely Thing mixes a world of fantasy and romance, while seducing the viewer into a dreamlike state. Rood, whose work has been featured in Bambi Magazine, The Dirty Durty Diary, Factio, KITTEN, and not to mention 
Do you remember the beautiful Park Ranger story Emman Montalvan made his debut with on Ben Trovato? Now his back with another story, and so is Leore Hayon, the mesmerizing girl who glazed the frames of his first story. In Leore & Martine, Leore (as the title suggests) gets accompanied by Martine Cajucom, who also styled the shoot.
"- I love my job, but I'm obsessed with photography!" says Paris based Matthieu Lemaire, who spends his days working as an Art Director for an ad agency, and his nights and weekend as a fashion photographer. Although an interest in fashion might have come at later stage in his life, photography has been a passion of his for as long as he can remember.
Alabama- based fashion photographer, Kelly Steffey proves to be a true talent with an eye for detail and a love for nature. In her first fashion editorial for Ben Trovato she combines her passions to create a beautiful story from beginning to end.
Shot at Claudine Ivari's gorgeous new showroom in Paris, this fashion editorial is a result of two inspired artists meeting and creating magic together. It was during fashion photographer Ninelle Efremova's stay in Paris a few weeks ago that she shot Claudine Ivari's Ready to Wear A/W 11-12 collection. "She captures so well what Paris is to me. Her sensibility and direction is timeless and classic. It is such a pleasure to walk into her gorgeous showroom in Paris and see pieces that could have been worn by actresses of the past or the royalties of today. Such elegance is hard to find," Ninelle says.
Ever since Anna Dabrowska's first Ben Trovato fashion editorial last March, we've been longing to see more from the Polish artist. Now the Paris based fashion photographer is back, with a story titled Levitating. "- The idea of Levitating came with summer and the constant light dancing in clouds," Anna says about the beautiful set of images featuring the magnificent Masha from Next Models in all her divinity.
Being huge fans of Los Angeles based fashion photographer Harper Smith, Ben Trovato contacted her this summer to see whether she would be interested in shooting a new story for us. After all, it had been more than 6 months since we featured her last time, and we'd seen the quality work she keeps putting out. A few weeks later, the fashion editorial Libertine was shot, featuring the unique fashion model Amanda from Photogenics.
A few weeks ago Andrea Massari made his debut on Ben Trovato, shooting Yulia Tsymbal on a balcony in Barcelona. This time the Rome-based artist is taking us back to the basics in the studio in Rome with another fashion editorial, Color Solitude. "The whole situation was really simple, we just played with extreme light and colors. I even wanted to show the studio equipment and everything … after all, that's where we were!" he says before directing the attention towards the gorgeous Charlotte Goussin from Next Milan: "Charlotte was very natural and easy to work with, and in 2 hours we had whole shooting done."
We're happy to welcome back Amel Kerkeni to Ben Trovato. Back on the blog this time she has produced a fashion editorial for us entitled Harvest Moon.
Advan Matthew adds to his series of unique exclusive stories on Ben Trovato with his latest fashion editorial entitled Serenade : Magdalene. Serenade.
Seventeen year old photographer Natalie Kucken began shooting at the age of fourteen, creating dreamlike worlds to collect and keep in pixels.
Warsaw based fashion photographer Greg Adamski is no stranger to The Ben Trovato Blog. We caught up with him to discuss his latest fashion editorial for Ben Trovato: Sicilian Girl.
Inspiration and talent derive from all people and places and Andrea Olivo is no exception. The now Milan-based fashion photographer got his start in photography at a young age.
The fashion editorial titled Still was shot with makeup artist and hair stylist Bethany Ruck, and worked with stylist Jacquie Lavaun for the shoot. The beautiful models are Morgan Chelf and Sasha Blue.
Kirsten Becken is back on Ben Trovato, and so is Germany's Next Topmodel's Marie Nasemann. Strandnixen is a fashion editorial shot at the beautiful coastline of North-Eastern Germany.
This is Shay Kedem's first fashion editorial for us. Entitled Fall Into Fall, Shey was inspired by the coming together of several elements - empowerment, cold lighting and texture and what he describes as "femininity with grace."