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Eva Longoria is spreading the love. The actress is part of a bold and powerful project by French artist and photographer Olivier Ciappa in which the subjects pose as same-sex couples or families to combat homophobia. In her shots, Longoria, 40, poses in an intimate embrace with singer Lara Fabian. For the series, called "The Imaginary Couples," Ciappa also shot other straight actors, artists and athletes, including Sicario director Denis Villeneuve and Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée.On his website, Ciappa explains he decided to create the photographs after a picture of himself, his partner and their baby was shared...

Eva Longoria is spreading the love. The actress is part of a bold and powerful project by French artist and photographer Olivier Ciappa in which the subjects pose as same-sex couples or families to combat homophobia. In her shots, Longoria, 40, poses in an intimate embrace with singer Lara Fabian. For the series, called "The Imaginary Couples," Ciappa also shot other straight actors, artists and athletes, including Sicario director Denis Villeneuve and Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée.On his website, Ciappa explains he decided to create the photographs after a picture of himself, his partner and their baby was shared...

  Olivier Ciappa and artist David Kawena created a short animation project as a tribute to the Mouse House's movie princesses. "We wanted to create a very artistic, classy, but also very funny hand-drawn short," Ciappa said. The team locked down Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken to score Princess Academy. "[He] was very excited about the project and agreed to work on it the moment we would have green light from the studio." They set about creating hundreds of storyboards that recalled the studio's heyday of hand-drawn animation. Sadly, Disney recently sent its hand-drawn animators packing, and Ciappa and Kawena felt stunted. "There was no point for us to even show that project." Although the project has been shelved for now, the...

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