"I like to make people look as good as they’d like to look, and with luck, a shade better."

~Norman Parkinson

Well, I don’t think the great 20th-century British photographer Norman Parkinson had too many problems on this day. This session was in a way the “perfect storm”. Here you have one of the greatest gifts to the camera in the history of photography, Audrey Hepburn, blessed with a sublime combination of beauty and vulnerability, and “Parks”, one of the most skilled practitioners of his craft, whose sense of humour, charm and height relaxed everyone before his lens. This special image was shot at the Villa Rolli, just outside Rome, where Hepburn was filming War and Peace with her

husband Mel Ferrer. It also helped that Hepburn was dressed in one of the greatest creations of her favourite designer, Givenchy. It is difficult to top this image, right?

Mother's Day 2024