Beginning her career as a stylist and fashion editor at Italian Vogue, where she worked with Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Guy Bourdin, Manuela Pavesi followed these inspiring giants into a career as a photographer in her own right in the 90s, shooting for magazines including i-D, Purple and L’Uomo Vogue. Now the owner of Villa Zani, the Italian setting for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo, Manuela collaborated with artist Francesco Vezzoli to make haunting studies of the culturally loaded 16th century villa in 2007, to serve as a reminder that Pasolini’s incendiary depiction of 120 Days of Sodom through a prism of Nazi occupation was more political than scatological. Currently Prada’s Fashion Coordinator, Manuela lives and works in Mantua, Italy.