Miss Universe 2013: Fadil Berisha – the Genius who Captured Ariella Arida, Erin Brady, Olivia Wells and Others
With a career spread over three decades, Fadil Berisha has a decorated résumé to show off.
hotographer Fadil Berisha is at the forefront of the creative industry. His dramatic celebrity portfolios, enigmatic fashion spreads and superb advertising campaigns have resulted in great demand for his creative services. Fadil is the official photographer for Miss USA and Miss Universe, since 2002. Recently, he photographed Ariella Arida, Erin Brady, Olivia Wells and other Miss Universe 2013 contestants.
Fadil clicked the Miss Universe contestants for 2014 Yamamay for Miss Universe swimwear collection. As the official photographer of MU, he has been instrumental in giving it great aesthetic appeal as well raised a few eyebrows with some mind-boggling photo shoots of the contestants.
He was born in Albania and spent his childhood, most of it, in Kosovo. Fadil loves both Albania and Kosovo and for his love he travelled to Kosovo to watch the Kosovo War in 1998. He captured the tragic war and later displayed the same in the United States in order to raise awareness of the pain endured by the people of Kosovo.
Fadil is also the exclusive photographer for Rolex and has been travelling across the world to click celebs like Ana Ivanovic, Roger Federer, Gustavo Dudamel, Placido Domingo and Phil Mickelson.
His downtown Manhattan Studio had guests like Halle Berry, Snoop Dogg, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Isabella Rossellini, Fran Drescher, Emmitt Smith, Rene Fleming, Eliza Dushku, Robert Verdi, Rick Fox, Patti Labelle, Russell Simmons, Michael Buble, Tyra Banks and many more.
Fadil's photographs have been published in the finest magazines like Seventeen, Elle, Vogue, V, Allure, Cosmopolitan, Vanity, Esquire, GQ, W, Fair, Glamour, Ocean Drive, Marie Claire and more.
He is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and always remembers the years of struggle and hard work he did to reach where he is, right now.