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The world according to Ellen von Unwerth: Glamour, sensuality and photography

Euronews Culture sat down with the renowned German photographer Ellen von Unwerth to discuss her contribution to Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's 2027 Toiletpaper calendar, her unique approach to fashion photography and the stories behind some of her most iconic images.

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00:13I'm very proud, it just arrived, thank you, yes, freshly out of the press.
00:28Well, I was in Berlin, and I had an event at Fotografiska, and they had an exhibition at Fotografiska,
00:37really fun exhibition, it's like, you know, like a big pool, you know, those pools with
00:44the plastic bananas, you could roll in, and the pictures sliced open, you could walk through,
00:50I mean, super fun experience, and I posted, we did lots of pictures, I posted some on
00:55Instagram, and they contacted me, and they were like, hey, Ellen, I hope you had fun at
01:00our exhibition, and I said, oh my God, I loved it, and from there on, we started to do a
01:05collaboration, I was like, yeah, because, you know, I love their very pop, like very loud,
01:11very flamboyant style, and, you know, part of my work is also very loud, and very flamboyant,
01:18and very pop, and so we talked, and we made, I was very, very proud, that they, you know,
01:24because I'm a big admirer of what they do, and I was very proud, and we started the collaboration,
01:30and it was very hard to just, because it's only six pictures each, and, you know, we had
01:36like so many, and to tone it down to six pictures was very hard.
01:48I had total free reign, but I know their style, you know, because after so many years
01:52of working, you know, what, when you work for Vogue, it's one thing, when you work for
01:56ID, it's one thing, you know, you work for Dior, it's another thing, so, you know, you
02:01learn, and then, toilet paper, you know their style, so, you know, like you go, I look through
02:06my archive, with my team, and we chose all pictures which were fitting to the style,
02:11because they said, okay, we're doing opposition, one picture is yours, and one is ours, and,
02:16you know, pictures which have something similar, could actually do a game, to ask people what
02:23are the similarities, and, and it was fun, it was a very fun project, I'm super, super proud
02:30and happy that it just came out.
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