User:Eva Rinaldi Photography

Eva Rinaldi (born 16th November 1971 in Sydney) is a well-known Live Music and Celebrity Photographer.

Photography has long been a passion of hers, having picked up a camera at ten years old. Eva has been making powerful images documenting children with bodyart, fashion and popular culture since 1997, when her photographs began appearing in Vogue and Cleo and then later she began working for corporate events creating a diverse body of work.

She realised she had a deep passion for live music photography when attending her first Bon Jovi concert and took photographs from the crowd.

Eva's body of worked leaped in 2010 while campaigning to bodypaint celebrated TV talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey. Her best known and most successful campaigns let's paint Oprah, working alongside one of Australia's finest photographers, the late Peter Carrette.

It was in this period that a number of news stories appeared on her in publications such as The Australian, Daily Telegraph, The Courier -Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, The Bondi View, The Mosmon Daily, The North Shore Times, The New Idea and The Chicago Tribune.

She refined her art at locations such as Bondi Beach and the secret tram shed in the inner west in Sydney, and at her family farm in Goulburn New South Wales.

Her artistic flair with the camera is only matched by her genius with the paintbrush.

Some of the more recognisable names that Eva has photographed include The Rolling Stones, Russell Crowe, Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Russell Brand, Michael Buble', Lionel Ritchie, Neil Diamond, Rihanna, Bryan Ferry, Chris Isaak, Cyndi Lauper, Santana, Ke$ha,Owen Wilson and Giorgio Armani.

Eva Rinaldi also runs a creative agency called Human Statue Bodyart and has painted faces such as Lady Gaga, Usher Raymond and Katy Perry.

websites www.evarinaldi.com www.humanstatuebodyart.com.au