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On the occasion of the “A Beautiful World” exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, Heni is delighted to present a group of four striking images from the series.

The artworks are available as editions on HENI Editions and as large fine art prints in two different sizes on HENI Primary. The works will be available to apply for from 25 July for a limited time. Click here for more details on how to apply.

A Beautiful World is an exciting quest for beauty and a tribute to life in which Mario Testino’s lens turn towards tradition and the origin and distinctions of belonging.

In 2007, Mario Testino set out to photograph traditional Peruvian costumes in the city of Cusco, in his native Peru, and thus discovered an interest that would become his most ambitious project: A Beautiful World. A legacy in the form of an archive, the series gathers the most astonishing beauty the contemporary world has to offer, under the gaze of one of the most influential photographers of recent times.

World-renowned for his amazing ability to capture movement and spontaneity, Mario Testino is equally talented when focused on that which remains unchanged, capturing with reverence traditions of decades and centuries, as well as the transgressions that dare challenge them. A Beautiful World is a living and evolving record of a variety of subjects, rituals and geographies that highlights our complexities while bringing us together; and a faithful portrait of its author: an artist infatuated with life.

A Beautiful World is Testino's extraordinarily magical and nuanced navigation of the complexities and contrasts of our many ways of belonging: individuality and conformity, community, rituals, ideas of self. Symbols and systems of belief.

“In my travels, I realised that when a country loses the bond between its history and its traditional dress something truly precious is lost” – Mario Testino

Influenced by photography greats like Cecil Beaton and Richard Avendon, even when making a conscious effort to channel artists like Peruvian master Martín Chambi, Testino's work remains his own. He is a photographer difficult to categorize, deeply instinctive, as versatile and varied as his interests.

From Peru to India, from Mongolia to Spain, from Kenya to Japan, Testino continues to travel around the world and its communities in his quest to capture identity. In this age of digitalization and immediacy, A Beautiful World gives us a chance to wonder and dream.

A Beautiful World supports The Great Balance's mission by fostering cultural heritage understanding. Find out more about The Great Balance here.