Franco Gobbi's 'Fragile' is a series of photographs featuring the world top models. His aim is to surpass the straightforward portrait and instead create images that capture the essense of what is illusive, fragile, and vulnerable in these highly photographed subjects. The women in his photographs live on the stages of art, photography, cinema, theater, and fashion. He seeks out subjects who are “deeply connected with Mother Earth” and who understand her capacity for generation and regeneration. Gobbi believes that this connection grants the women he photographs the capacity to return to their own essence, no matter the physical modifications required of her. Gobbi’s work draws on and refers to an array of predecessors, including Man Ray, Francis Bacon, and Andy Warhol. 'Fragile' is Gobbi’s debut book of photography.

Franco Gobbi was born in Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy in 1976, a small village of just 1,000 people. Gobbi is a longtime member of the London cyberpunk artist collective The Mutoid Waste Company, which arrived in Sant’Arcangelo in the 1990s. Since his early years, he has been in search of transformative experiences. He started cutting and styling hair in the his village salon at the young age of 14. His interests and ambitions soon led him to bigger things. At age 21, he opened a salon in central Riccione, Italy, at that time a hotbed of nightlife and club kid culture. From there, he went on to live in Milan, then Paris, and finally New York City, where he now lives and creates.

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