Colombian fashionographer Ruven Afanador, 50, won the coveted Trophée de la Mode award for best photographer in 2000. His images often pay homage to early sources : Nadar's daguerreotypes and the idea of the photograph as a precious object, Baron von Gloeden's sepia works of art, Man Ray's solarized images and old dance pictures of Nijinsky and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...
He's mostly known for shooting celebs aplenty, Christina Aguilera being the latest one in the pages of the current Fall 2008 issue of Citizen K.
