Riccardo Ghilardi recently photographed 42 of cinema's biggest names – including Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Sharon Stone, Willem Dafoe and Zoe Saldana – inside Italy's National Museum of Cinema in Turin. And the resulting exhibition, opening this week at Gallerie d'Italia, demonstrates just what happens when you treat your subject as a creative partner, not a passive model.
The brief was straightforward: transform the Mole Antonelliana, the museum's iconic tower building, into a film set. But rather than dictating poses and concepts, Ghilardi gave each actor and director freedom to interpret the space however they wanted.
