MaRIO DE JANEIRO Testino - A New Taschen Pocket Edition
When Rio’s heat met Testino’s lens, a new language of sensuality was born.
Mario Testino’s MaRIO DE JANEIRO is back, smaller in size, no less explosive in spirit. Now re-released by Taschen as a pocket edition, the book distils the electric glamour, intimacy, and rhythm that made the original 2009 edition an instant classic.
Part love letter, part fever dream, MaRIO DE JANEIRO captures the pulse of Brazil through Testino’s unmistakable eye; where skin, sunlight, and sensuality collide. Across its pages, Rio is not just a city but a state of being: free, alive, unrestrained.
The book explores the intertwining of Testino’s Peruvian roots with Brazil’s effortless hedonism, a connection that has long inspired his work. It’s a world of bronzed bodies and candid moments, where eroticism and elegance are one and the same.
Featuring new printing and portable proportions, the pocket edition is both collectible and intimate designed to be held, carried, and lived with. It’s a reminder that beauty, like Rio itself, thrives in motion.
“Rio is a city that invites you to lose yourself and in doing so, find something true,” says Testino. “It’s where I understood the freedom of photographing without restraint.”
The release arrives at a time of renewed fascination with sensual photography and nostalgia for late-90s and early-2000s imagery. MaRIO DE JANEIRO Testino stands not as a relic but as a blueprint... a visual manifesto of joy, desire, and liberation that continues to influence how the world sees beauty today.