Fashion shoots don’t always try to push boundaries. But when they do, they tend to push them hard or risk the failure of going unnoticed. With a title like City Of God, surrealistically perverse settings, and liberal splashings of nudity, Mario Sorrenti‘s pictorial for V Magazine may strike you as blasphemous. I can’t help but feel there’s a safety net for Sorrenti and the magazine, though, in the labelling of the shoot as a tribute to The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s twisted piece of 1973 celluloid art. The controversy is still Jodorowsky’s; just modernised and captured in glossy print.
If you’ve ever watched The Holy Mountain (which I, for some odd reason, have) the pictorial, which features Natasha Poly, may make a little more sense to you. But only a little.
What do you think of Sorrenti’s shoot? You can see more, and leave your comments, at the gallery below.
