Secrets

Secrets is a collection of black-and-white portraits by the Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, published under his own imprint, Editions Stromboli, to coincide with a 2013 exhibition at the Fotografiska museum in Stockholm.

The photographs draw on both Roversi's fashion work and more personal, unpublished images, presented not as a bound book but as loose printed sheets housed under a card cover and slipcase. The format treats the pictures as individual objects rather than fixed pages. The project was produced with Antoine de Beaupré.

Roversi has photographed for the world's leading fashion magazines and houses for four decades, working largely with Polaroid and large-format cameras to build a body of work defined by soft focus, muted tone and a persistent sense of intimacy bordering on mystery. Secrets gathers material that sits outside that commercial output, closer to the photographer's own private register.