Davide Sorrenti Journals - Volume 1, 1994-1995

Born in Naples in 1976 and raised in New York among a family of photographers, Davide Sorrenti was already creating a distinct yet controversial visual language in his teens. His life and work was the subject of the documentary film See Know Evil and the rise of ‘heroin chic’ in fashion photography of the mid-90s – though he never distinctly described himself as a fashion photographer. He compiled sketchbooks and journals full of observational and ‘reportage’, personal work which connected him to his subjects. Davide Sorrenti Journals: Volume 1 1994-1995 is edited by Francesca Sorrenti, Davide’s mother. The journals collected in this volume are the first tangible record of that creative awakening: notebooks brimming with drawings, scribbled ideas, contact sheets and Polaroids that reveal how he saw the world around him.