“I didn’t use Photoshop (in the way you think) for these pictures – but everyone assumes I did”

Real Zebra and Model in large mostly white room with a number of stuffed animals.

I’ve been to the distant lands of creativity in Photoshop. Every fad every other photographer has done, and more. Levitating women, winged women, a woman with many nipples - not my best moment. Dresses turning into oceans, hair turning into fire, or plonking a giraffe over the model completely (don’t laugh, that one ended up in the Saatchi Gallery…)

Think of it as ethical. I’ve laid out a sleeping lion in an English manor, turned a peacock into a woman’s hat, and even transformed Peter Paul Rubens’ 1617 severed ‘Head of Medusa’ into a rather fashionable telephone. All with lion and peacock unharmed, and headless man dead anyway…