"This image has become one of my favorites for a very different reason, not because it represents my style at its purest, but because it’s a photograph about a photograph, and the story behind it is pure 1970s America.

The poster on the wall features Fanne Fox, the infamous burlesque dancer who exploded into headlines after the Wilbur Mills scandal in Washington, DC, and suddenly went from tabloid chaos to a Playboy assignment. Playboy asked me to shoot her, and that was the irony, it was far from the style, feeling, or way I would normally photograph the female form, it leaned into that over-the-top look of the era, but in hindsight, even if it’s far from me stylistically, it’s close to my heart

in terms of story and career.

Aside from that, Playboy later had me follow it up a couple of issues later by photographing a spread of her daughter for another issue. I was building a serious fine-art path around the female form and a museum-level approach, so I kept my name off the credit, and in some cases, in other publications, used a pseudonym, Rupert Danes, just to keep the lines from blurring."