Luigi & Iango
Biography
Luigi & Iango (Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi) are an Italo-Swiss fashion photography duo. Since starting to work together they have photographed more than 300 covers for various international editions of Vogue magazine, and other leading magazines such as I-d, W, Vanity Fair, Chaos and Dust. Luigi and Iango’s work has been presented in various art publications, exhibition catalogues and exhibitions in Fine Arts museums around the world, most notably at the Brooklyn Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Hypo-Kunsthalle in Munich, the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris and at the France Pavilion for the Universal Exhibition 2020 in Dubai, among others. They have worked with AMFAR and various charity organizations since 2018 and helped to raise more than one million dollars auctioning their Art prints.
Often playing with the codes of popular culture, those of masculinity, feminity and genders, they transgress the rules of photography in their work, offering a new perspective and an open vision of society. The strength of characters is also at the center of their work: Kate Moss or Yoshito Ohno, Cate Blanchett or Mikhail Baryshnikov, photography is a means to fulfill the need to discover the soul of personalities as numerous as they are diverse, and offers different possibilities in this regard. In recent years, they explored an array of subjects, from nudes, to Japanese sumo wrestlers and geishas, pop legends, performing artists and dancers, creating portraits and instant classic images for magazines and advertising. “Entering Luigi & Iango’s working and living space is to enter an entirely different world, where everything is possible and unexpected things happen. It’s a world of creativity without limits. » explained contemporary artist Marina Abramović.
The spirit of Luigi & Iango’s work does not stem from one director, performer, or artist, the two photographers are in search of something deeper than beauty: their own truth and the need to stay authentic, but also sometimes to create interactions between their subjects. What many will separate and consider either commercial, or creative personal work, the latest is right for all the images Luigi & Iango create. They do not compromise when it comes to looking for the soul of their subjects through a poetic approach in portraiture. Madonna wrote about their work that: “Through their lens we are transported into a world where boundaries are pushed and preconceived notions are challenged. Being photographed by Luigi and Iango is like being cast in one of my favorite Italian movies. Visconti, Fellini, or Pasolini. Take your pick. I am always transported to a world where nothing makes logical sense and everything looks beautiful.”
Palazzo Reale, Milan presented their first solo exhibition “Unveiled” from September 21 until November 26, 2023, showing more than 100 fine art prints, some unpublished, archives, behind the scenes material and videos and a 300 pages book published by Phaidon and edited by curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot.
GNAMS, Rome ( National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art ) presents their new exhibition opening on October 13th until November 30 2026 , showing 220 fine art prints and a 250 pages catalogue curated by Francesca
Alfano Miglietti.
Selected works
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From October 13 to November 29, 2026, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome hosts Corpi speciali, an exhibition dedicated to Luigi & Iango,
one of the most acclaimed photographic duos on the contemporary international scene. Curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti and produced and organized by Tenderstories,
the exhibition is held under the patronage of Regione Lazio, Roma Capitale and Archivio Storico Istituto Luce.
The exhibition features a selection of over two hundred photographs—including previously unseen works and iconic images—in Luigi & Iango’s first exhibition to develop a reflection
on the body as a site of identity, transformation, and symbolic construction in the contemporary world. The photographs, portraying leading figures from contemporary culture,
performers, dancers, and international icons, form a human atlas capable of reflecting the tensions and metamorphoses of our time.
The works selected for this exhibition by Francesca Alfano Miglietti move beyond the conventions of fashion photography to embrace a broader dimension in which portraiture
assumes both poetic and political significance. Fragmented bodies, suspended between vulnerability and monumentality, traverse the exhibition space in a dramaturgy of light and
shadow that questions the relationship between vision, desire, and authenticity.
The visual research of the duo unfolds within a liminal territory where photography transcends mere representation and becomes a critical tool for investigating the condition of
the contemporary body, producing images that challenge the mechanisms of visibility and identity construction.
As Francesca Alfano Miglietti notes: “At the heart of their work lies a reflection on the body as a political, poetic, and symbolic space. In their photographs, there is no stable or definitive
identity; rather, the human figure appears as matter in transformation, an organism traversed by cultural tensions, desires, vulnerabilities, and ongoing processes of self-redefinition.”
She continues: “The legacy of performance practices, post-identity theories, and the cultural transformations that shaped the latter half of the twentieth century quietly permeates
these images. Luigi & Iango absorb these complexities into a visual grammar composed of fragments, suspensions, and disjunctions, where portraiture becomes both a site of
revelation and a source of unease.”
Thierry Mugler Couturissime
UNVEILED
Books
UNVEILED
2023
The first monograph on the celebrated photographic duo Luigi & Iango, accompanying a major exhibition of their work
While many photographers seek to capture the aesthetics of a moment, Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi aspire to transcend a single genre, capturing a timeless quest for pluralistic beauty and artistic expression. One of the most creative imagemakers working in the industry today, Luigi & Iango share their stunning portfolio of work – from icons of contemporary culture and supermodels to Japanese Kabuki and portraits of artists and performers – in their first ever monograph. Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi (known as Luigi & Iango) are a Swiss-Italian photography duo. Since starting to work together in 2013, they have photographed stories and series for the world’s leading magazines, captured iconic celebrities such as Madonna, Gisele Bündchen, Rihanna, Penélope Cruz, and Cate Blanchett among others.
Edited by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, with a foreword by Madonna.
Double Vision
2023
Unveiled with a new artwork created in collaboration with painter ROCCO RITCHIE.
