Pirelli Calendar launched in Rio

ERJ staff report (DS)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The 2013 Pirelli Calendar was presented on 27 November in Rio de

Janeiro. This year's photographer is Steve McCurry..

"I tried to portray Brazil, its landscape, its economy and its culture, along with the human

element" said McCurry. "This was the story I wanted to tell through my lens. For me photography

is an important expressive means to tell large and small stories of daily life."

“I would say I am a street photographer doing 'found situations.' You can photograph nudes

anywhere. But these models are clothed, and each of them has her own charity. They are

purposeful and idealistic people. So I wanted to photograph them in a special place, and Rio

was perfect for this,” McCurry adds.

There are 34 colorful images in the 2013 Pirelli Calendar, bound together in a calendar-book: 23

portraits of actresses and models, nine images depicting bits and pieces of daily life, and two

pictures entirely composed of graffiti and murals.

The Calendar features 11 models, actresses and singers: Brazilians Isabeli Fontana (who

appeared in Bruce Weber's 2003 Pirelli Calendar, in Patrick Demarchelier's 2005 edition, in Peter

Beard's of 2009, in Karl Lagerfeld's of 2011 and in Mario Sorrenti's of 2012) and Adriana Lima

(also in Patrick Demarchelier's 2005 edition), actress Sonia Braga and singer Marisa Monte;

Italian-egyptian actress Elisa Sednaoui, Czech model Petra Nemcova, Tunisian model Hanaa

Ben Abdesslem, Ethiopian model Liya Kebede, and American models Karlie Kloss, Kyleigh Kuhn

and Summer Rayne Oakes.

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Official website of the Calendar