Silvana Trevale

I’ve been aware of Silvana Trevale’s work for some time. Born in Venezuela, she left the country at 17 to study photography in the UK and now splits her time between New York, London and Barcelona. Her portrait-based practice combines documentary and fashion photography, exploring the human body, her Latin American roots, womanhood, and youth.

Trevale considers her work to be “a fusion between documentary and fashion”. She captures the distinct vitality of Venezuelan Fisherwomen, photographed for a US Vogue story, with as much fluency as models shot for Loro Piana and the peloteras captured for Sixteen magazine. She's a fixture at Vogue Italia's PhotoVogue Festival: now in its tenth year, the festival has showcased Trevale's work six times.

The image here shows the Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade. The link in the image will take you straight to Trevale’s series of images of Lafourcade — they’re worth poring over. In one of the shots, Lafourcade, who enjoys painting in her spare time, is seen painting on glass — a scene that calls to mind Paul Haesaert's legendary 1950 short documentary film, Visit to Picasso.