IV. MAR+VIN - Marcos Florentino + Kelvin Yule
"The brazilian photographer's duo formed by Marcos Florentino and Kelvin Yule gained recognition for having built an unprecedented body of photographic work, creating a cultural bridge between Brazil and the world, having photographed the biggest names in fashion, music, sports, arts, politics, activism and national and international cinema, such as EGOT Viola Davis, model Naomi Campbell, Tilda Swinton, Gisele Bündchen, Lewis Hamilton, Erykah Badu, Gilberto Gil, among many others.
Long-time contributors to Vogue and ELLE Brazil, they have helped elevate the image of Brazilian fashion in the eyes of the world. They have been featured as promising names on global portals such as BOF and Models.com, finalists in the first edition of the Latin American Fashion Awards in the categories Fashion Photographer of the Year and Fashion Film of the Year, as well as being included in the Fashion Awards NEW WAVE 2023 list, promoted by the British Fashion Council, as one of the 50 most innovative and inspiring young creatives playing a key role in the industry worldwide. In recent years, their work has been exhibited in countries such as the USA, France, Belgium, Benin, South Korea and the UK.
Marcos was born in the state of Piauí, in a small village in the northeast part of Brazil. He started experimenting with drawing at a very young age and tried other medias as he grew up. Living his childhood in such a remote place, he found in the fine arts and in the books a way of dreaming with different and fantastic realities, helping him to accurate his vision, while watching his mother sew his sisters’ dresses for traditional Brazilian celebrations and graduations, which may have been his first contact with fashion. At 18, he moved to São Paulo and got a degree in graphic design through a scholarship. There he began to use photography as a form of expression and also expanded his art through experimenting with sculpture, ceramics, textiles, drawing and oil painting, all of which he incorporated into their work as a duo.
Kelvin is from the coast of Bahia, where he grew up as a queer child in a small town shaped by strong religious traditions, a backdrop that sparked his early curiosity and desire to question the world around him. At 17, he entered university to study Journalism, where he directed his first short film and held photojournalism exhibitions, discovering in imagery a powerful tool for storytelling and reinvention. Fashion emerged as a natural extension of this gaze, a fertile ground for telling new stories. In 2016, he met Marcos and soon after moved to São Paulo, where they began developing a collaborative body of work that merges photography, fashion, art, politics, and identity.
Clients: DIOR, DIOR BEAUTY, LVMH, Netflix, Globo, Vogue Brasil, O Boticário, Natura, Absolut, Melissa, Calzedonia, Renault, Meta, Facebook, Sephora, Schutz, Vivara, Riachuelo, C&A, C6 Bank, QDB, Restylane, Vult, Eudora, Colcci, Renner, Arezzo and many others.
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