Ten years ago, my girlfriend of the time, the German photographer Katja Rahlwes, gave me the number of her dentist, JACQUES VETTIER. She said he was a “bit tough,” but an excellent doctor. What I didn’t know was that Jacques had been HELMUT NEWTON’S DENTIST, and that he would become a friend.
His office contains a unique mix of antiques, trophies from safaris (one of his passions), pictures of Helmut Newton (including a Newton self-portrait with him), post-surrealist paintings, fashion illustrations, and, of course, medical instruments. Jacques was the one who found the veritable prosthetic devices Newton often featured in his pictures of women. When I told him that I’d started taking pictures and wanted to shoot some in his office, he said, “Sure. But I want you to have naked girls in them. I may have a celebrity clientele, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind.”
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
Michelle Buswell @ MARILYN and Sophie Willing @ STORM, models — Yasmine Eslami, style — Maxime Lefebvre-Roque, photographer’s assistant — Masae Takanaka, stylist’s assistant
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Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere Pre-Collection
by Hanna Liden
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Sabine Heller
by Massimo Torrigiani
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Katja Rahwles
by Bruce Labruce
by Malerie Marder
by Stefano Pilati
by Hanna Liden
by Marlene Marino
by David Sherry
by Ryan McGinley
by Raymond J. Dumas
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm