For some his photography might be photo-porn for others eye candy extreme: this British Photographer is a revelation to the aesthetic eye. His work is a journey through visionary settings and bold characters.

One picture of yours offers a whole story open to many interpretations: tell us the process behind one of your most favorite pictures.
Maybe this image with Paz de la Huerta? - We shot in a small nudist park in Paris. We didn't know the exact location and ended up walking through a huge park for 45 minutes until we found it. Paz dragged her heels about 10 minutes behind us, bored, with a punky attitude and a glass of wine in her hand. Her mood flipped when she finally saw some nudists. Paz would be naked all of the time if she could. She grabbed my hand and pulled me towards some sunbathing nudists. She started asking in French if we could take some photos with them. The first nudists declined her offer, but Paz turned to me and said "just take the photos anyway“. I was a little nervous and scared that people would feel uncomfortable with us taking photos there. But by the end of the day we were surrounded by groups of naked people that Paz had hoarded up like sheep and taking pictures like there was no tomorrow.

Your aestethics are very strong, bold and tell a lot of different point of views: What is your vision?
I like to create characters and I like to show beauty - sometimes in a vulgar way. Building the image through casting/hair/makeup/styling/direction is essential for me and maybe a bit annoying for the people I work with, but its important for me to get to the image as I envisioned it. I'm interested in a few different aesthetics, which sometimes makes work difficult, because the more editorial you go, the more you end up scaring commercial clients and then vice versa.

Tell us about your shooting with plus_ren in Cape Town - the plus size girl you found through hashtags. The mise en scene is like a barock painting time-traveling to future. How did that happen?
I was in Cape Town earlier this year, I went to shoot a campaign and asked the client to extend my trip for 5 weeks so I could shoot some personal work and escape the British winter. I spent a lot of my time walking around looking for locations, one day I spent the whole day walking up the coastline in search of a particular unnamed secluded rocky beach I had seen online. On the beach I met a girl named Bridget, who was interested in learning about photography, we got on really well and became good friends. I even ended up staying with her for a week, but best of all - Bridget owned a car and and grew up in Cape Town! This opened up a lot of shoot opportunities for me to be able to go outside of the city and to visit more unknown and scenic locations that would otherwise have been unfamiliar to me. I found it a little difficult to find the right models in Cape Town through agencies so went to Instagram and ended up searching a bunch of random hashtags, I found Ren, an amazing subject, under the hashtag #plussizecapetown. Ren is super comfortable with her body and nudity so we decided to shoot some nudes in nature. Bridget suggested a location 2 hours outside of Cape Town and we found a few spots that were each about 5 minutes drive apart. I had a 45 minute window of light also as I really wanted the last light of the day and we did 3 set ups in this time. It was so intense to stick to the time we had, it was a real race against the sun, drive-shoot-drive-shoot-drive-shoot!

Your latest work for Vogue Italia is retro-futuristic yet minimalistic modern - also due to the high maintenance make-up-work from Bunny Hazel Clarke. How did you two meet - you seem to be a match made in heaven…
Wow, this is a long story, which I’ll keep short: we first met nearly 10 years ago, but didn't get close until around 5 years ago. We bonded on a luxury "shoot holiday" in Mexico, when I booked Bunny for a travel job. After this we were inseparable for many years, we even went backpacking together in India for 6 months and when we got back to London we ended up sharing a room for a year. We've been all around the globe together for shoots: She’s a very talented and capable make-up-artist and I trust her creative opinion whole heartedly.

The way you portray women and girls is very bold, it feels like a sexy yet modern take on feminine strength. On the other hand you portray boys in a sensitive way with feminine charm, which seems to be intuitive with a nice twist: what is your background?
I'm from Wales, I grew up on a farm with sheep, cattle and lots of horses. Growing up I was never shown art, music, cinema or culture at all. I loved getting into trouble and hanging with horses. I was good at maths in school, but I didn’t attend it often - and eventually I'd get into cameras. It wasn't until I moved to London at 16 that I really started to develop myself in means of my cultural references. I grew up in such isolation and then went to the polar opposite of living right in the middle of a huge metropolis: all of this has a big influence on the way I like to portray people.

What is your favorite music track at the moment?
I just started listening to this amazing podcast about the cultural relevancy and significance of Dolly Parton. I got really obsessed with her after the first episode, she is like a crazy genius and has written thousands of songs. She wrote "Jolene" and "I will always love you" on the same night!!! Thats insane! I've been listening to her song "Joshua" on repeat, which was one of my favorite songs as a young child. I was supposed to be named Joshua actually.

You seem to love traveling. If you were a country, which one would you be - and why?
This is such an odd question.

How do you unwind - how do you inspire yourself?
As a freelance photographer I have a lot of free time in which I like walking around the city or sometimes in nature. Many ideas come to me whilst doing so, there is always something that triggers a thought. I can't remember ever feeling bored in my life, maybe a couple of times whilst shooting commercial jobs that go on forever - but that's different to boredom, I guess. When I get excited about a shoot it’s like torture, a part of me hates it, I can't sleep, I can only think of the shoot and nothing else. I go over the same details again and again and again in my head until new details appear - it’s an obsession.