Kumi, San Francisco 1996 - This was the second shoot I did with Kumi - the first one was the Chinatown shoot with Midori. The shoot was organized by Molly who owned and designed for So Hip It Hurts latex. This is a scaled down version of a new one-gigabyte scan from the the original negative. The image originally appeared in my first book The Beauty of Fetish (Edition Stemmle). Photographed with the Mamiya 645 as usual.
Kumi, Santa Monica 2004 - An unpublished photo of Kumi from a shoot we did in a friend’s backyard in Santa Monica. She’s wearing houndstooth House of Harlot latex overalls. Shot with my Mamiya 645 with Tmax 400 film.
Sorry for the extra large watermark. I’m getting more and more frustrated by the inconsiderate jerks out there who steal art, strip off watermarks, redistribute, and don’t even credit their sources.
Steve Diet Goedde has been a fine art fetish photographer since 1990. He is known for his subtle approach to photographing the high-gloss fetish world in a very non-gloss, down-to-earth style. His attention to composition and black and white tonal quality has given him the title of the Ansel Adams of fetish. Steve established his photographic style in the early 1990s in Chicago where he photographed the contents of his first book "The Beauty of Fetish" (Edition Stemmle) which was released in 1998. That same year, Steve relocated to Los Angeles where he continued to define his evolving style. This west coast work was later compiled in his second Edition Stemmle book "The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II" in 2001. In 2006, Slish Pix released a DVD compilation of his work entitled "Living Through Steve Diet Goedde". In 2009, Steve has collaborated with French composer Robert Waechter on a CD entitled "GoeddeConcerto" (ReadyMade Music) in which the ConcertMaster of the Philharmonic of Nice, France interprets 21 of Steve's photographs into 21 mini-concertos. www.stevedietgoedde.com
