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Reggimento Corazzieri – Rome Portrait Sittings (Rory Lewis Photographer 2018)
While revisiting my archive, I recently rediscovered a series of group portraits made in Rome in September 2018—photographs of the Reggimento Corazzieri, the elite cuirassiers of Italy and the ceremonial honour guard of the President of the Italian Republic.
Read MoreFew military specialists operate with greater restraint—or greater consequence—than the sniper. Trained to observe without detection, to wait without movement, and to act with absolute precision, snipers exist on the margins of visibility. Their presence is rarely acknowledged, yet their influence is profound.
Read MoreIl progetto Soldati della Repubblica, realizzato attraverso la Rory Lewis Non Profit, mi ha portato in viaggio attraverso l’Italia per ritrarre alcuni dei più storici e prestigiosi reggimenti di cavalleria: Nizza Cavalleria (1°), Lancieri di Novara (5°), Lancieri di Aosta (6°), Lancieri di Montebello (8°) e il Reggimento Corazzieri, guardia d’onore del Presidente della Repubblica.
Read MoreThe year 2025 marks a defining milestone in my career as a portraitist and in the mission of the Rory Lewis Non-Profit: the capture of four living British Field Marshals—an achievement unparalleled in contemporary photographic history. This body of work joins the organization’s latest acquisition, the Presentation Portrait of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig(1928), symbolically uniting the early twentieth-century imagery of command with its living successors nearly a century later.
Read MoreRory Lewis Non-Profit presents a visual thesis uniting portraits of the last three Commanders of the Household Division — Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, Major General Sir Chris Ghika, and Major General James Bowder — each photographed at the historic Duke of Wellington’s desk inside Horse Guards, London.
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