LEONARDO I
For an unique group photo in a
library of the Victoria & Albert
Museum in London, the world’s
leading expert on Leonardo da
Vinci, Oxford art historian Martin
Kemp, and his colleagues Marina
Wallace, in black, and Thereza
Wells bring to life Leonardo da
Vinci’s famous ‘Last Supper’
fresco. Kemp and Wallace head
the international ‘Universal
Leonardo’ project.
>> This image was part of a
GEO picture story on Leonardo
da Vinci. The original idea of a
group portrait with 13 different
persons proved unrealistic.
Therefore I switched to the more
unusual concept of having three
persons pose repeatedly in
different positions.
The time frame for the whole
shoot was extremely narrow, 75
minutes, a fact which caused me
a couple of sleepless nights prior
to the shoot.
Digital composition of the five
4x5" exposures took me another
two days at the computer.