Paolo Roversi's dreamlike fashion photography on show

A new exhibition dedicated to the Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi is being showcased by the Guardian in a picture gallery that celebrates his distinctive, dreamlike aesthetic. The feature, published this week, focuses on how Roversi's technical mastery transforms what might be considered flaws — blur, soft focus, the accidents of light — into the very substance of his images' beauty.

Roversi, whose decades-long career has made him one of the most recognisable names in fashion photography, is presented by the Guardian as a practitioner of what it calls 'magic from the shadows'. The gallery format, rather than a conventional review, allows the work itself to carry the argument: each image is offered as evidence of a method that prizes atmosphere over sharpness, and suggestion over precision.