photos from his new book pictures and text, published by Steidl/ Zeit Magazin Octopussy I’ve always liked spaghetti nero. Delicious and one gets black teeth from it. I photographed a friend of mine in Rome in my hotel room with ink all over her body. I laid the octopus on my bed and called it Octopussy. Cerith’s Birthday I took this picture at the birthday party of my friend the artist Cerith Wyn Evans. He loves being photographed. When he saw the photo, he asked, “Please can we use the picture for my obituary?” With Lily Cole on the Rubbish Dump The Vogue party in India had fireworks and a lot of palaver, but as a place to take naked pictures of Lily Cole it wasn’t quite right. And anyway, it turned out taking naked pictures in India is actually a terrible idea. Nothing’s allowed there. Lily got bored…
Octopussy, Rome, 2008 (Octopus on bed 2008) / Mariacarla, No.24
Cerith’s Birthday
Bareback Riding/ Self Portrait, Daisy perfume, Ronda 2010
With Lily Cole on the Rubbish Dump/ Lily with puppies, India, 2007