

The last hall showed a documentary with an interview talking about his perspective on photography. The first three halls included Testino’s photos of fashion models, actors, and musicians, and his work for famous magazines worldwide. It consists of several halls, a few permanent exhibits and one temporary exhibit. Mario Testino was born in Lima, hence the museum's location. This was my first time going somewhere interesting (grocery stores don’t count) by myself in over a month. When we found ourselves staying in the Barranco neighborhood of Lima for three weeks, one afternoon when Aya fell asleep I went to Mario Testino's MATE Museum which was located just 100 meters away from our place.


This is not a complaint, but rather a choice and a definite change in perspective on many things in life. If in the past travel included business trips and short vacations to trendy places, now it is slow paced tourism, often in poor and little developed areas of the world. My life has changed significantly after I left Los Angeles and found myself traveling the world, giving a whole new meaning to the words world and travel. You can take the girl from fashion, but you can’t take fashion from the girl.
