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NUEVO EditorOda Cecilie Folde

Co-editor/photoeditorJulia Jameson

ArtdirectorMaria Morgan

FashioneditorProenza Phoenix

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Internal mattersAnne Anderson

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DEAR READER I hope you will find this issue of Nuevo interesting and beautiful. As usual we have focused on the beauty in the world, and aspecially the one that nature brings us. Summer 2012 is colored by the natural beauty of man, but also the amazing feeling it is to be in touch with nature. The portrait of Bear Grylls, on page 36, is about a man who lives completely alongside nature and bases his whole life on surviving out in the wild. Ironic?

In this months fashion spread, on page 14 and out, we've taken Victorias Secret's supermodels out in the wild and we've portraid them in all their natural glory, Blue Lagoon style (anybody remembers that movie?). Erin Heatherton and Candice Swanpoel blends in perfectly with the outdoors, really showing us how we are natural human beings born and raised by Mother Earth.

On page 6 we give you a portrait of a man who really understood how to show us true beauty through a cameralens. Richard Avedon, a famous photographer from America, has photographed celebritys and legends for several decades. Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, to mention a few. One of his most known pictures "Dovima with Elephants" gives us a perfect example of how he was a pioneer in his time, and let animals and human blend together creating magic.

Since nature is the big theme in this issue, we will take you on a journey through Africa, on page 28 and out. We give you Christopher Kidds fantastic photographys blended in with a short story and a travel guide to harmonious destinations in South-Africa.

Nuevo has pride in showing you the wonders og the world, presented in a simple way.So our recomendetion to you is to sit back, and let the beauty in. We promise you that it will take you far, far away... if you let it.

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RICHARD AVEDON AFRICA

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American photographer Richard Avedon was best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist portraits.

RICHARD AVEDON

Foto James Russel Styling Carrie Cucumbre

HE WORKED FIRST as a photographer for the Merchant Marines, taking identification photos. He then moved to fashion, shooting for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, demanding that his models convey emotion and movement, a departure from the norm of motionless fashion photography.

Richard Avedon was born on May 15, 1923 in New York City. His mother, Anna Avedon, came from a family of dress manufacturers, and his father, Jacob Israel Avedon, owned a clothing store called Avedon's Fifth Avenue. Inspired by his parents' clothing businesses, as a boy Avedon took a great interest in fashion, especially enjoying photographing the clothes in his father's store. At the age of 12, he joined the YMHA (Young Men's Hebrew Association) Camera Club.

Avedon later described one childhood moment in particular as helping to kindle his interest in fashion photography: “One evening my father and I were walking down Fifth Avenue looking at the store windows,” he remembered. “In front of the Plaza Hotel, I saw a bald man with a camera posing a very beautiful woman against a tree. He lifted his head, adjusted her dress a little bit and took some photographs. Later, I saw the picture in Harper's Bazaar. I didn't understand why he'd taken her against that tree until I got to Paris a few years later: the

tree in front of the Plaza had that same peeling bark you see all over the Champs-Elysees.”

Avedon attended DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, where one of his classmates and closest friends was the great writer James Baldwin. In addition to his continued interest in fashion and photography, in high school Avedon also developed an affinity for poetry. He and Baldwin served as co-editors of the school's prestigious literary magazine, The Magpie, and during his senior year, in 1941, Avedon was named “Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools.” After graduating that summer, Avedon enrolled at Columbia University to study philosophy and poetry. However, he dropped out after only one year to serve in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. As a Photographer's Mate Second Class, his main duty was taking identification portraits of sailors. Avedon served in the Merchant Marine for two years, from 1942 to 1944.

Upon leaving the Merchant Marine in 1944, Avedon attended the New School for Social Research in New York City to study photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the acclaimed art director of the famous magazine Harper's Bazaar. Avedon and Brodovitch formed a close bond, and within one year Avedon was hired as a staff photographer for the highly respected and popular fashion magazine. After several years

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Bending over the Rolleiflex, Avedon said, “All right, now, very straight,”

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photographing daily life in New York City, Avedon was assigned to cover the spring and fall fashion collections in Paris. While legendary editor Carmel Snow covered the runway shows, Avedon's task was to stage photographs of models wearing the new fashions out in the city itself. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s he created elegant black-and-white photographs showcasing the latest fashions in real-life settings such as Paris's picturesque cafes, cabarets and streetcars.

Already established as one of the most talented young fashion photographers in the business, in 1955 Avedon made fashion and photography history when he staged a photo shoot at a circus. The iconic photograph of that shoot, “Dovima with Elephants” features the most famous model of the time in a black Dior evening gown with a long white silk sash. She is posed between two elephants, her back serenely arched as she holds on to the trunk of one elephant while reaching out fondly toward the other. The image remains one of the most strikingly original and iconic fashion photographs of all time. “He asked me to do extraordinary things,” Dovima said of Avedon. “But I always knew I was going to be part of a great picture.”

Avedon served as a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar for 20 years, from 1945 to 1965. In addition to his fashion photography, he was also well known for his portraiture. His black-and-white portraits were remarkable for capturing the essential humanity and vulnerability lurking in such larger-than-life figures as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. During the 1960s, Avedon also expanded into more explicitly political photography. He did portraits of civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Julian Bond, as well as segregationists such as Alabama Governor George Wallace, and ordinary people involved in demonstrations. In 1969, he shot a series of Vietnam War portraits

that included the Chicago Seven, American soldiers and Vietnamese napalm victims.

Avedon left Harper's Bazaar in 1965, and from 1966 to 1990 he worked as a photographer for Vogue, its chief rival among American fashion magazines. He continued to push

the boundaries of fashion photography with surreal, provocative and often controversial pictures in which nudity, violence and death featured prominently. He also continued to take illuminating portraits of leading cultural and political figures, ranging from Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison to Hillary Clinton. In addition to his work for Vogue, Avedon was also a driving force behind photography's emergence as a legitimate art form during the 1960s, '70s and '80s. In 1959 he published a book of photographs, Observations, featuring commentary by Truman Capote, and in 1964 he published Nothing Personal, another collection of photographs, with an essay by his old friend James Baldwin.

In 1974 Avedon's photographs of his terminally ill father were featured at the Museum of Modern Art, and the next year a selection of his portraits was displayed at the Marlborough Gallery. In 1977, a retrospective collection of his photographs, “Richard Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977,” was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before beginning an international tour of many of the world's most famous museums. As one of the first self-consciously artistic commercial photographers, Avedon played a large role in defining the artistic purpose and possibilities of the genre.

“The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion,” he once said. “There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”Richard Avedon married a model named Dorcas Nowell in 1944, and they remained married for six years before parting ways in 1950. In 1951, he married a woman named Evelyn Franklin; they had one son, John, before they also divorced.

In 1992, Avedon became the first staff photographer in the history of The New Yorker. “I've photographed just about everyone in the world,” he said at the time. “But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.” His last project for The New Yorker, which remained unfinished, was a portfolio entitled “Democracy” that included portraits of political leaders such as Karl Rove and John Kerry as well as ordinary citizens engaged in political and social activism.Richard Avedon passed away on October 1, 2004, while on assignment for The New Yorker in San Antonio, Texas. He was 81 years old.

One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Richard Avedon expanded the genre of photography with his surreal and provocative fashion photography as well as portraits that bared the souls of some of the most important and opaque figures in the world. Avedon was such a predominant cultural force that he inspired the classic 1957 film Funny Face, in which Fred Astaire's character is based on Avedon's life. While much has been and continues to be written about Avedon, he always believed that the story of his life was best told through his photographs. Avedon said, “Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.” A great photographer with a great history and record.That's what we learned by researching Richard.

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A few weeks ago there was a small stir of excitement in our area.

It briefly lit up the gloom of our northern Scottish winter like the Northern Lights, which are quite visible to us at this latitude. Apparently a man - a Marine, no less - had walked, wearing nothing but a grin and a beard straight out of Lord of the Rings, from the South of England into Scotland, up past Loch Ness and the Highlands where I live, and on to the very northernmost point, John O'Groats - in winter.

A Scottish winter, at that! I'm not sure where his starting point was but he must have walked about six hundred miles. Forest Gump would have been impressed. It was either a very brave, or foolhardy course of action, depending on your point of view but it certainly bought him his fifteen minutes of fame. There he was on TV, being carefully filmed from the waist up, the way they used to film Elvis Presley in the early days.

"Everyone", he said, "should be free to follow my example if they've a mind to".'Not even as a joke', thought the whole of Scotland, 'and even less in winter'.

The police didn't see the funny side of it either. He was arrested five or six times and spent several nights in prison cells, covered by a blanket (the police's idea, not his). I remember scanning the local papers for the headline 'Man arrested for palely loitering', but it wasn't to be. I still think they missed one there. He was certainly persistent. He finally arrived at his destination and no, he didn't throw himself off a high point into the North Sea, which some people thought (I won't say hoped) might be the logical end to his journey. As far as I know he got dressed, took a train to his hometown and quietly faded back into obscurity, leaving us with a memory, like the Cheshire cat's grin. All this was, I suppose, to make the point that he had the inalienable right to freeze anytime he had a mind to. Well, point taken, but this little saga set me thinking.

Why have we never had our own coat, like other animals? 'But we do', I hear you cry, 'and anyway I'm not an animal'. Oh yes you most certainly are, Madam, and besides, I mean the kind of coat you're born with.

Almost every animal, from a mouse to a moose has a coat. Ok, elephants don't, and maybe hippos, but I suppose they have extra thick skin to compensate. No, beyond dispute, we are the only animal that has to keep warm by getting dressed every morning by the fire. The reason we are coatless seems fairly obvious: didn't we start out under the hot sun of Africa, and so had no need of a natural coat? Hmm... then how about gorillas, who share 98% of our genes? They're pretty hairy, no question, so why didn't they shed their coat? You don't see them prancing about in their bare skin? Alright, let's try it from a different angle. Why did we move out of Africa? I have a theory. Suppose the other animals started snickering behind their paws as they watched us tottering around on our spindly legs? Or maybe we just thought we detected a sardonic look or two. No, really, I'm serious.

Anybody who's ever played tag with a dog in the garden knows how clumsy they think we are. Just watch as Bracken feints to the left and then effortlessly switches direction in mid-stride as Master sprawls into the rose patch. And they're our friends.

What do you mean, 'In a pigs eye'? Don't you know people laughed at Darwin when he brought out his theory, and they would certainly have done the same to Einstein if they'd understood what he was talking about? Anyway, if I'm right, my idea throws some light on seemingly irrational activities like war, mud wrestling and round-the-world yacht racing. A large claim, you may say, but consider; those pioneer Europeans who came trudging all the way from the plains of Africa (I seem to recall reading in a book by H.G.Wells that they came from India, but I'll think about that tomorrow); these hardy pioneers, like so many Pilgrim Fathers searching for a new horizon, went to an awful lot of trouble just to soothe their

wounded dignity and avoid ridicule. (Remember? They were laughed out of Africa? - try to keep up, it all fits).

We all know the human race is notoriously sensitive to criticism, and I don't suppose the animal kingdom took us very seriously before we equipped ourselves with guns, boots, Landrovers etc. Perhaps a few of the more vulnerable and touchy families got together one day and decided to head out for colder climes, where it would be possible to dress up and hide their bony knees without feeling they were being stared at. I read somewhere that the whole population of northern Europeans could be traced back to about five gene types (genotypes?). If I understand this right it means that around five families were responsible for the diversity of virtually the whole of Western culture from Boadicea (Boudicca to Guardian readers) to George Bush: nepotism on a grand scale. So, bearing this true and staggering fact in mind, my theory about our neurotic ancestors could account for a lot of things, couldn't it?

Now, does any of this seem familiar? You betcha, it's the M.O. of just about every politician you ever heard of. One imagined slight and you have shoes banged on conference tables, and sanctions applied at the very least, and at the worst - well, you know what I'm saying. And there you have it. These are the same guys who led us out of swampy old Africa in the year dot - give or take a couple of millennia

Neat theory, eh? Better than the string theory. I wonder why nobody ever thought of it before? It's a pity though, that it doesn't seem to have any practical application. I mean, you couldn't gather up all our leaders and put them back in the African veldt. Could you?

As for our friend the intrepid Marine, who trekked all the way up north in his birthday suit - he's done Scotland; maybe he should try Africa next.

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OUT OF AFRICA(An Improbable Tail)

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BEAR GRYLLS

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is an English adventurer, writer and tel-evision presenter. He is best known for his televi-sion series Man vs. Wild, known as Born Survi-vor in the United Kingdom. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35.

"You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit," jokes the survival expert with a sheepish grin. It's early evening in the screening room of London's Mayfair Hotel, and the oft-grubby adventurer has just introduced the latest episode of Born Survivor, his Discovery Channel series that has been seen by an estimated one billion people worldwide.Which means that a billion people have seen Bear Grylls sleep inside animal carcasses, traverse the world's toughest terrain, and - most famously - drink his own urine. But is he tough enough to survive our interview covering Cameron Diaz, beating Everest and his best barbecue recipe?

You've been in some pretty tough situations. But earlier this week on Graham Norton you gave Cameron Diaz the Heimlich manoeuvre...

- I thought she was choking on a bit of charcoal! So I leapt round and gave her the Heimlich. Better safe than sorry. She's cool - always up for a laugh. I asked her afterwards if she'd come on Born Survivor and she said definitely, so hopefully she'll stick to that. It would be fun.

You've taken Jake Gyllenhaal and Will Ferrell on the show. Who is the toughest celebrity you've met?

- Those two words don't usually go together. But I've met some incredible guys, and one of the privileges of my job is I get to hang out with some of the top climbers, skydivers and survival guys all around the world. I'm surrounded by incredibly talented, strong people.

You've got three boys. Which is harder: Everest or fatherhood?

- Everest. Everest was three months of misery, whereas fatherhood is just fun. There are hard bits, and obviously you sleep a little bit less, but fatherhood has just been a total joy. The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight. That's a really important part of my day.

What has been the most difficult moment mentally?

- One for the new season, up in the Arctic in northern Norway. We were trying to show storm conditions, so we recreated them with some fire guys using massive hoses and industrial wind machines to blast me with wind and rain. We wanted to show how to get a fire going and get a shelter up in a storm. I got completely beaten by it. It's the first time I've cried on the show - aching, unable to move, totally beaten. But it shows that if you're caught in a storm like that for real and you're ill-prepared, you are going to die. That's the reality of it.

What luxury do you miss most in the wild?

- Beyond my family? When you're cold it's being warm, and when it's hot it's being cool. When you're in a jungle piss-wet through, it's having some shelter. That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet. It's amazing we take such simple thing for granted.

When you're not eating Yak eyeballs, you like to cook. What's your favourite thing to throw on the barbecue in the summer?

- My family get pretty suspicious when I'm cooking dinner! Shara says I have a bad habit of either cooking things raw or charcoal-black. I try and eat pretty healthily when I'm back home, so I would throw on some nice salmon steaks. If I'm having an unhealthy day, it's great making my own

burgers. Really good, healthy, organic lean mince and a load of garlic make great burgers. I'm never very popular at home after those.

If we were to adopt one move from your fitness regime, what should it be?

- One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines. I also do my yoga routine everywhere - airports, deserts, the middle of the jungle.

What's your proudest moment? - Passing SAS selection was a huge thing

at a young age in my life and it gave me confidence. That's where I learnt so many of the skills that I use on the show, and just the hard graft - 180 of us started and only four of us passed at the end. Those guys are still my buddies. More recently, I'm super-proud of hitting No.1 in the bestseller list today. That's been a dream ever since I started writing, and to be honest it's another dream I never thought would come true.

I'm so lucky.

«That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around

a candle flame on an ice sheet. It's amazing we take such simple

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» Our theme for this months fashionspread is the movie "The Blue Lagoon". It's the story of true natural love in the purest way. Nuevo wants to honour this ideal and will give you the opportunity to experience nature in a beautiful way. This movie, which was released in 1980, is directed by Randal Keiser and is a movie in the genre adventure/drama/romance. Starring is a fourteen year old Brooke Shields and a »

fearly young and handsome Christopher Atkins. With their ship on the verge of exploding, three

relative are forced to take refuge of a small boat. Richard, his father and his cousin Emmeline are washed ashore on a deserted island far away from civilization. After a while, the father passed away, leaving the two youngsters to fend for themselves. They adapt to their surrounds, build a make-shift home of out the islands foliage and gear up for a long stay on the island.

Time passes by, and life on the island gives the young couple challenges that they have to overcome. But after a while, this life, living side by side with nature is all they know. When ships pass, they hide instead

ogf letting people know they're there. The island is their life, both the beauty of it, but also the dangers lurking in the bushes in various forms.

We took Erin Heatherton and Candice Swanpoel, both models for Victorias Secret, out into the wild. Inspired by this movie, and of the beauty that surrounds us in nature, photographer James Russel took this amazing shots that you're about the see. Get carried away to a desert island where you only can rely on yourself and nature.

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Kurisa MoyaHidden away in the ancient forest of the Lim-popo region, near to the legendary home of the Rain Queen, this is one of the most spiritually rewarding escapes I have yet found. Gorgeous and individually designed accommodation tucked away deep among the trees - many of which are several hundred years old, and the chance to go birding with South Africa's top local bird guide, David Setsaolo

BulungulaFor me, the model of how sustainable com-munity tourism should be done. Where most similar destinations charge a lot of money so that they have few high-paying guests and then use that money wisely to help the com-munity they are based in, Bulungula charges backpacker prices, yet does more in the local community than anywhere else I have ever seen. Authentic, deeply immersed, unbeliev-ably full-on, and in probably the most beautiful coastal location in South Africa.

Teniqua Treetopsthe Garden Route can get all a bit overrun and bland for my liking, but Val and Robyn offer up an amazing escape from it all, hidden in tree-houses in the thick forests above Sedgefield. Skinny dip in the tannin-brown river, hike in the densest indigenous forest imaginable, and shut yourself off from the world with a braai on your deck looking out across the treetops and the stars.

GrootbosFive star luxury, but also one of the great conservation success stories of South Africa. Situated in its own 1 750-hectare reserve in the Cape Floral System, they are preserving a part of the country's newest UNESCO world heritage site, while also working in the local townships, running Southern Africa's only gar-dening college for previously disadvantaged youth and all the while providing guests with as luxurious a rest as you could hope for.

Thonga Beach LodgeTucked away in the Isimangaliso Wetland Park (another World Heritage Site), this lodge offers scuba diving, kayaking and turtle watching in season on one of the last unspoilt wilderness beaches in South Africa. And it's one of the best examples of a community partnership I've seen with 68 per cent of the lodge owned by the local community to ensure that while we tour-ists get to see unspoilt nature, the people who rely upon it for their homes and livelihoods get to benefit from it too.

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