Sunday, August 2, 2020

Story behind a picture: Photographer Alvaro Villarrubia

๐Ÿ“ธ Let's talk about the "new old pictures" shared by Spanish photographer, fashionista and transgressor ALVARO VILLARRUBIA PHOTOGRAPHER


He worked with ๐Ÿ”น Placebo ๐Ÿ”น on a shooting in 2004 for the MTV Magazine.


๐Ÿ—ฏ We would like to tell you a bit more about Alvaro.
He definitely does his work on his own way, different to other photographers as we can see on each of his pictures!


๐Ÿ‘จ‍๐ŸŽคHe started in the 80s with pop stars shootings, album covers and concert posters.
A lots of fashion and movie stars ๐ŸŽฌ wanted him because of his eccentric and unusual way of working, using a fancy way in creating the scenographic elements and fantasy accessories to give live to creatures out of our world.


We can see his work on uncountables numbers of ๐Ÿ“ฐ magazines covers, not only Spanishs like El Mundo and El Paรญs Espaรฑa, Neo2 Magazine, Rolling Stone (Espaรฑa) or Metrรณpolis, he also worked for magazine outside of Spain like Vogue France, Corriere della Sera Italy, JAM Rusia, Art in America U.S.A. or ๐Ÿ—ž Vanity Fair.


To finish our short biography about Mr. Villarrubia we want to mention the celebs who chose him for photo shoots.


In Spain musicians and movie stars like: Miguel Bosรฉ, Tino Casal ๐Ÿ‘ฉ‍๐ŸŽค Alaska (Alaska y Mario / FANGORIA) (*friend with Stefan Olsdal), Marta Sรกnchez or actresses like Rossy de Palma or Carmen Maura, in the 80/90.


Nowadays, famous young Spanish actors, like Miguel Angel Silvestre, Paco Leรณn, Sergio Peris-Mencheta Oficial or Juan Jose Ballesta wanted him for a shooting.


Outside of Spain we can find people from television, actors, singers and bands like PLACEBO. ๐ŸŽธ


He also had fun working with Robbie Williams ๐Ÿง‘‍๐ŸŽค Duran Duran, Spice Girls, RuPaul, Dita Von Teese, Gloria Gaynor or Boy George & Culture Club, fashion designers ๐Ÿงต like Jean Paul Gaultier and the late David Delfรญn. Some ballet dancers like the famous flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes ๐Ÿ•บ was also in front of his camera.




Read the complete biography ๐Ÿค“ and check out some of his wonderful work on these pages:

 
๐Ÿ‘‰ Alvaro Villarrubia on Facebook

๐Ÿ‘‰Alvaro Villarrubia on Instagram 


๐Ÿ“ท Photo credits: @alvarovillarrubia.photography
Placebo 2004 - MTV Magazine

Post by Susie Bosco