LONDON ISSUE 600 May 2016

Sakis Lalas lives and works between London and Milan. He specialises in celebrity portraits, fashion, advertising and commercial photography. His ability to instantly grasp the personality of the people in front of the camera allows him to put them at ease and realise deeply intimate portraits that reflect their personalities. This skill, along with the capacity of meeting tight deadlines, has led him to photograph people of international fame. Over the years he has photographed some of the most famous stars of the fashion industry (Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Silvia Fendi, Ralph Lauren), as well as many top businessmen. He is able to achieve the same perfection in photographing pets too, as one can see in the pictures of the Dolce & Gabbana's Bengala kittens published in Town & Country UK spring 2016 collector’s edition.

Cinema has always been Lalas' passion and recently he decided to dedicate more time to the art. Regularly in Los Angeles, he has shot for People and Esquire magazines, amongst others, portraits of big movie industry names such as Patrick Tatopoulos (the production designer of Batman Vs Superman), Phedon Papamichael (director of photography & 2014 Oscar nominee for Nebraska), and Spyros Skouras, a film agent and grandson of the legendary Skouras president of 20th Century Fox from 1942-1962.