Supermodel Naomi Campbell holds time in her hand in a backstage image from the 2024 Pirelli calendar photoshoot. The 50th edition of the prestigious calendar is photographed by Ghanaian Prince Gyasi, the first Black photographer to receive the commission. Scroll through the gallery to see which celebrity names feature this year.
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Idris Elba braves the weather and gets the thumbs up mid-shoot. The actor has Ghanaian ancestry on his mother's side. Gysai has called the calendar, which officially launches later this year, "Timeless," and has chosen famous faces who embody the theme.
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Gyasi directs actor Angela Bassett for the 2024 Pirelli calendar. Bassett, recently announced as the recipient of an honorary Oscar, is cited by the photographer as a figure who has broken through barriers in her career and inspired him.
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Poet Amanda Gorman (left) and writer Margot Lee Shetterly (right) on set. The shoot features bold block colors, a common theme of Gyasi's highly-saturated works.
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Gyasi (back to camera) frames his subjects, including artist Amoako Boafo (center). The 28-year-old photographer experiences synesthesia, which causes him to associate words with color, and has seen him pair colors with the names of his models.
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Former France international footballer Marcel Desailly (right) leaps out of the blocks during the shoot. Desailly was born in Accra, Ghana and one of many models with direct connections to West Africa.
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Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, king of the Asante people of Ghana (center), in a behind-the-scenes photograph taken during part of the Pirelli calendar photoshoot in Ghana. It is not the first time the Pirelli calendar has been shot in part on the continent (previous editions have used Morocco, Tunisia, Botswana and the Seychelles), but it is the first time the calendar has visited West Africa.
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Film director Jeymes Samuel receives an eye test and some direction from Gyasi during the Pirelli calendar photoshoot. Gyasi began his career taking photographs in Accra with an iPhone as a 16-year-old, although he's since migrated to higher-end set ups.
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American wordsmiths Margot Lee Shetterly (left) and Amanda Gorman (right) with photographer Prince Gyasi.
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Angela Bassett and Gyasi embrace in a behind-the-scenes shot.
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Gyasi poses for the camera on his own shoot. The set of images by Gyasi for the 2024 calendar will be released later this year.