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He moved to Paris in 1973 and, except for a few years spent in London, he has lived and worked there ever since. \r\n\r\nRoversi began his career in portraiture, but moved into fashion photography in Paris.  His first major fashion story was published by Marie Claire.  A Christian Dior beauty campaign brought him wider recognition in 1980, the year he started using the 8 x 10” Polaroid format that would become his trademark.  He continues to work for the world’s premier publications including Lei, Elle, British and Italian Vogue. \r\n\r\nAlthough he has spent most of his career in Paris, he identifies himself as thoroughly Italian.  He credits the ethereal, fantastical quality of his imagss to his childhood surroundings and experiences in Ravenna.  Roversi said recently in an interview ‘I went back to my mother’s house and I looked all around, and there were images of the Madonna all over the house.  All the churches in Ravenna always have that central figure.  I said to myself, ‘My pictures are coming from this iconography of my childhood’. \r\n\r\nRoversi creates most of his photoraphs in his studio in central Paris, a sparsely furnished room with wooden floors and a large window.  He has described it as ‘like a tiny theatre with an empty stage, a space to be filled ... a proscenium where everything is possible’.   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