He was born in Britain in 1933 and moved to France in 1953, where he still resides. After working for 'Elle' and 'Queen' (before it was 'Harpers & Queen') he became famous in the 1970s for photographing pubescent girls in a state of undress, usually with lots of gauze and vaseline, in a pseudo-classical style, often accompanied by poetry and commentary on the unknowableness of the feminine; despite allegations of child porn his books apparently enjoy higher sales figures than that of all other photographers, something his website goes out of its way to mention.