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Purple Magazine
— S/S 2013 issue 19

Ataui Deng

Looking back to ’70s performance art, from the Viennese Actionists to French and American Body Art, the fashion photographer MARIO SORRENTI flooded his studio with an explosion of paint, creating a backdrop in which he and model ATAUI DENG were nearly swallowed whole.

photography by MARIO SORRENTI

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