Gratuitous Sex and Violence – My Favourites

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The pictures in the book are more like gratuitous surrealist sex and gratuitous surrealist violence. Even in a picture of a woman with butterflies attached to her back, that appears beautiful at first glance, you soon realise that they are pinned to her with needles and below are their Latin names. Pinned there by some perverse collector, perhaps. The pictures are like troubling scenes from movies and have an uneasy sense of tension. They are scenes that are flimic and suggest narrative.After 7 years on this project, I have enough material for two books but the pictures in it are the ones that made the cut and cover the breadth of the work.The book is beautiful in places and ugly in others but it all comes from the same place; "How do I take an interesting picture?"