Steve Diet Goedde's pictures are concerned with fetishism, but they could reasonably be regarded as fashion work, for they are about clothes and about the roles that dressing imposes on women, or allows them to play.

Inspired by the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, his first instinct was to become a filmmaker; only slowly did his attention turn to the still image. His first book brought him critical acclaim and a loyal following.