"Since 1964, the Pirelli Calendar - referred to and trademarked simply as 'The Cal' - has provided preeminent photographers the opportunity of realising big-budget ideas with some of the world's most celebrated faces. The not-for-sale calendar is also perceived as a sort of litmus test for contemporary sensibilities, with projects over the last decade eschewing the sexualised imagery of the 80s and 90s in favour of high-concept fashion set pieces."
"Sundsb b , who has always engaged new technologies, chose not to shoot his subjects in natural landscapes - "too much information," he says - but instead, to bring the outside world into a controlled studio setting. "I mean, what is nature? Is it Hyde Park, is it the Hawaiian landscape? It's everything! We took it down to its bare bones, and then it's about immersion.""
The Pirelli Calendar has showcased high-budget photographic projects since 1964 and is regarded as a barometer of contemporary taste. For 2026, Norwegian-born, London-based photographer S lve Sundsb adopted the elements as a loose theme and shot 12 women from film, fashion, music and sport, including Venus Williams, Isabella Rossellini, Tilda Swinton and Gwendoline Christie. Sundsb chose studio-controlled environments over natural landscapes to distil nature to essentials and focus on immersion. The production used LED backdrops, water tanks, timelapse cloud footage and crafted sets; the calendar devotes two images to each model and emphasizes technical precision and conceptual imagery.
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