Lui and Rihanna

Mario Sorrenti shot Rihanna topless for Lui Magazine. He’s spent decades photographing bodies with this particular kind of clarity—no softening, no conceptual dressing it up, just form and light. When you put Sorrenti and Rihanna in the same room, the work is going to be direct. The photos came out clean and bright, her against colored backgrounds. There’s a confidence to how she carries it, this sense of complete comfort with being completely exposed. Not defiant about it. Just matter-of-fact.