Sam Guelimi

Polaroids by Sam Guelimi, Carnet de chair et d’artifice, Taschen, June 2009

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM 

OLIVIER ZAHM — Where did the idea for this book come from?
SAM GUELIMI — It came to me after a critical night with my lover. It was the opposite of what I’d experienced with men up until then. My lover, an older man, was very excited by the fact that I’d been with a lot of other men and that, in fact, I’d just been with someone else. This was also the discovery of the character in my book. She sees that the man becomes excited by hearing about her other liaisons, and this confuses her: the man she really loves, the older man, needing his own desire validated by the desire other men have for her, and his being erotically stimulated by it. Slowly this…