Roy Stuart (photographer)


Roy Stuart is an American photographer and film director who lives in Paris. His photographs blend glamour photography and contemporary art with an emphasis on female models and BDSM aesthetics. His photography books have been published by Taschen, the first three volumes of which sold 250,000 copies. He has directed the movies Giulia and The Lost Door.

Life and work

Stuart lived in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, working as an actor, musician and in a colour photo lab. He moved to London where he became a photographer and began taking erotic photographs. He later moved to Paris.
Philippe Garnier, writing in Libération in 2002 said of Stuart's publications by Taschen, "Roy Stuart is quickly becoming a locomotive for this atypical editor."

Publications