“I do not need to represent unconventional things in a transgressive, inelegant and provocative way. When I describe them in pictures I try to normalize everything with the usage of harmony. They deserve so; that is the mission I feel. Real life is already edgy enough.”
Caterina Gili is an Italian fashion photographer based in Berlin. Her editorial work has been published by Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Esquire, Grazia and Cosmopolitan. She has worked as a photographer for 14 years. Philosophy, music and photography play the main role in her production. She completed her master's degree in philosophical sciences and during her studies she decided to learn deeply about photography as an autodidact. The passion for music pushed her very soon into learning more about photography by using the little amount of light during concerts in clubs. It was a good training that brought her to work for Rolling Stone and some other established Italian music magazines. Her skills in photography developed also in other directions and this brought her to reach different goals like working in London for the Sunday Times as assistant and portrait photographer and in Italy for Sky TV as still photographer. After moving to Berlin she became a photo editor and in the last years she mainly focused on editorial and commercial fashion photography. Currently she works as fashion photographer at Zalando and keeps going on with her freelance and editorial work as photographer and art director.