I photographed this in New York in 1992 for an advertising campaign for the Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti. The assignment was to interpret “the quality of life,” and I wanted to do that in a way that still felt true to my own style, with warmth, sensitivity, and atmosphere.

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The rays of light and quiet feeling in the image connect directly to my early personal work, especially photographs made in Russo’s studio in Barbizon, France. Even in commercial work, I was always looking for a way to bring that same mood and visual language into the picture.