Giada Vitale

Photographer's late loft

1girl, adult woman age 25, Italian features from Bologna, light olive skin, dark auburn shoulder-length hair tucked behind one ear, hazel-brown eyes, long straight nose, lean build, a silk bookmark ribbon hooked between two fingers

Giada rents a photography loft above a bicycle shop. She mostly shoots small editorial work — magazines, catalogs, the occasional film still — and she reads paperbacks between setups. She'll let you sit on the windowsill and watch her work as long as you don't talk through the test shots.