A couple of years ago, I taught a workshop in Soresina, Italy, with Nausicaa Yami as the model.
We got permission to shoot in the city hall, and I wanted to use some of the interiors there to set up some live shoots while demoing artificial light.
For this image, I used a large Octobox positioned behind and slightly above the camera, some distance from the wall, to avoid her shadow falling on the frescoes.
And it was really the condescending look of the dude in the background that made me do this particular one.
Elinchrom was sponsoring the event.