Albert Watson - Calendar Pirelli 2019 Numbered edition

The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as "The Cal", is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli since 1964. The calendar has a reputation for its choice of photographers and models and featured glamour photography from the 1980s until the 2010s.

For 2019 Pirelli Calendar, the celebrated photographer Albert Watson has created a series of vignettes centring on the dreams and aspirations of four successful and talented women.

Each ‘little movie', starring well-known models from film, fashion and dance, shows the characters at significant crossroads in their lives.

The result is 40 beautiful and cinematic images taken on location in Miami and New York all on the theme of ‘Dreaming'.

The photographs, for the 46th edition of the iconic Calendar, were shot in colour and black and white using the cinematic 16:9 format, inspired by Albert Watson's passion for the art of film.

Watson said the basic idea behind the whole project was that of telling a story in four ‘little movies'.

“What I wanted to convey were the characters' hopes and their way of thinking about the future, in a way that would bring with it the aspect of dreaming,” he said.