Photography by Lorenzo Agius

The son of an army man Lorenzo Agius was born in Colchester, England in 1962 but because of his father’s military occupation he spent the first decade of his life travelling around and living in such places as Aden, Malta and Germany. The whole family returned to live in England when Lorenzo was ten. “We came to live in England and I lived on the east coast of England until I was 18,” he recalls.

At the age of 18, having started a photography degree at the University of East Anglia, Lorenzo came to a crossroads in his life. He had to choose between continuing his degree in photography or going out into the world. He reveals: “I decided then that rather than do a degree in photography I’d come to London and be an assistant for at least two or three years. Quite a few of the photographers that I spoke to told me that a degree was a waste of time and that I wouldn’t necessarily get a job at the end of it.”

In 1989 he turned freelance and explains: “I started doing fashion and portraits.” But Lorenzo had to wait until he was nearing his mid-30s for his photographic career to explode. It was the aforementioned photography for the publicity posters for the Trainspotting film that ‘made’ him.

This one film poster campaign sealed Lorenzo’s future career. “It just sort of boomed and things went very crazy, very quickly. Very soon I was shooting lots of music pictures, films and then the Spice Girls movie, which was very different. I’ve always said that a photographer should be able to adapt to anything and I think that I have a style and approach that’s not obvious.”

Having made some very big ripples in the film world in the UK Lorenzo’s star very quickly began to rise across the Atlantic in the US. With the era of ‘Cool Britannia’ being ushered in, under a then very new and novel New Labour government lead by Tony Blair, Lorenzo traveled ‘across the pond’

With a rapidly growing reputation on both sides of the Atlantic in the film, fashion and magazine worlds Lorenzo was soon shooting A-list stars such as Kate Winslet, Kevin Spacey, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, and Madonna. His client list was growing and he was working in the fields of film, advertising and fashion.

In the pack: Alexis Bledel, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Catherine Zeta Jones, Colin Farrell, Dido, Emma Watson, Heather Graham, Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Beckinsale, Hugh Jackman, Keira Knightley, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Pink & other celebities.