umberta

when i met umberta genta  four years ago, i just wanted to take her picture...and i did....quite a few as i recall at the tuscany workshop (tpw.it) where i often teach in the summer....umberta was a student in another class, but i wanted her as a "model" for the project i was doing on portraits of women...she was perfect...natural...i said nothing,  and umberta moved and blended and even though i had the camera, she made the picture...

but umberta is not a model...she is a photographer of models...this italian photographer  now does fashion work in london and trys to combine her personal work with the professional...

the black & white photograph below was taken in my apartment...but, i have never seen umberta in new york...she and her friend daria stayed in my place for a  couple of weeks  about three years ago when i was on assignment somewhere...

umberta is very serious about her work.....and her work will take her where she wants to go....