Serena Williams in 2009. Photo by Walter Iooss.
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In 2009, Walter Iooss photographed Serena Williams for a humorous Tampax campaign. Afterward, he got a moment with her for a personal photo shoot, which yielded this portrait.
“This shoot was done two days after her Wimbledon victory,” recalls Walter, “and she came in exhausted. She is a great girl and very in control of the moment. I took a few minutes after she finished with the video for the shoot to take some portraits for myself. i could see all she wanted to do was leave, but because of our longstanding relationship, she said okay. The first shot I took, her guard was down and the picture was overexposed, but there she was…vulnerable.”
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