Laurent Elie Badessi is a Franco-American fine art photographer born to three generations of photographers. After ten years focusing on the human figure, Badessi’s work “SKIN”, compiled in a book of the same name, was internationally released in the early 2000 by the prestigious Swiss publisher Edition Stemmle. Badessi’s photographs are part of many important private and public collections, shown in major cities around the world. He has received several prestigious awards, including a grant from the French Department of Cultural Affairs for his Paris show “Métamorphoses”. Badessi lives in New York City and joined RALPH PUCCI in 2006.