His Brother's Keeper.

Publication: W

Publication Date: 01-NOV-01

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Mario Sorrenti commemorates the life of his late brother, Davide, with a new photo book, The Machine.

Maria Sorrenti, the photographer who created the signature images for Calvin Klein's Obsession, has an obsession of his own. But this time it's not another high-profile fashion spread. It's a series I of images he took of his younger brother, Davide, on Thanksgiving in 1994, three years before Davide's death at the age of 20 due to complications brought about by thalassemia (a genetic blood disorder) and drug abuse.

"Three years ago, I accidentally found these photos I had taken of Davide that night, and it changed the course of things," says Sorrenti, speaking over drinks in the lobby bar of the Royalton Hotel in Manhattan. "Finding them has made everything else I was doing seem completely...

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