Fabrizio Gianni is a genuine photography legend. He has had a stellar career which began in film and moved into fashion photography. His photography exhibition at theparkgallery focuses on his work for fashion magazines such as Italian Elle, Italian and French Vogue, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar and Figaro, to name but a few. Fabrizio has photographed celebrities galore from Charlize Theron to Andy McDowell to Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves and more. He was assistant director on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and a spaghetti western film he wrote and starred in, which he dismisses as awful, is actually a favourite of Quentin Tarrantino. “I never lost sight of the fact that my job was to persuade women they should remember the clothes – that they are beautiful and sexy but in fact it’s the model who is beautiful and sexy not the dress she is wearing. Designers don’t always think about the woman they are designing for and it was my job to put the clothes into settings to show them being worn. When they are on the catwalk they are not really clothes, they are surrealistic works of art. I have to make them look real.” This exhibition highlights how he accomplished this by creating storylines; revealing a lost past that is inspired by and partly drawn from photographs of his parents taken in the 1940’s, and of his grandparents from the 1920’s, with a bit of inspiration from Hollywood’s Golden era. The people in his photographs appear to have landed from another age as if they’ve stepped out of a film. One fashion spread recounts the story of Hemingway’s The Moveable Feast, inspired by his nights in Paris, going on drunken pub crawls with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Another pays tribute to Italian actress Anna Magnani who won the best actress Oscar for The Rose Tattoo in 1955. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday: 2pm-5pm Last admission 4pm http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/