1.- Now BDSM-Fetish culture is very well known and accepted, some years ago it wasn´t, Do you think your work helped the culture to gain more ways to express and expand itself?
Perhaps but the work of John Willie, Eric Stanton, Fakir Musafar, Alan Jones preceded me…whoops must include Irving Klaw since it was his early images that I saw in my early puberty that lead to the making of my early sm-bd images

2.- Besides BDSM-Fetish art, do you have photography interests in other fields?
Sure. I just finished editing a book on 28 photographers work (including my own) on Andy Warhol. Entitled “Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp" available from www.ericfirestonegallery.com I also did TASCHEN’s “Ballet in the Dirt” the baseball photos of Neil Leifer.

3.- You have a very exquisite taste for fashion where does it come from?
Good question. Both my parents were in design. My dad, Boris Kroll, designed and manufactured a lot of cool mid-Century textiles. My mom went around the World buying World craft for a store she had. Growing up I met at the house: Bonnie Cashin, the great clothing designer, George Tanier, the Danish Furniture importer/exporter, Billy Suear, the Frick Museum restorer…design and fashion were Paramount in my house in the 50’s and 60’s growing up.

4.- After so many years in this field, what are the main things that really inspire you to continue on?
A young girl. Older women are inhibited. They know how they want the World to see them. Young women aren’t sure and are open to suggestion. I still enjoy casting a woman…everyone assumes I fuck the women…less and less but play is good.

5.- Which is the music that makes you feel in the mood for work?
The Pogues, Mingus, Monk, Erik Satie, Lou Reed

6.- You have traveled the world, have you ever realized that some countries have a strong social, political, emotional and religious tendency towards BDSM-Fetish culture than others?
England, France…not Italy. Catholic countries get me nervous

7.- Sometimes we don´t notice it, but BDSM-Fetish culture and lifestyle is more present in our normal daylife, in your opinion It is BDSM-Fetish culture borrowing aspects from normal life or viceversa?
Things go in cycles…look at all the extreme heels and pencil skirts that were everywhere in the 1940’s. BDSM fetish creeps back in for a while on the fringes then disappears again.

8.- What kind of girls turn you on?
Young, fresh, all sorts, www.modelmayhem.com helps because I travel and if I’m in a city somewhere in US I browse 4 someone to shoot.

9.- Have you ever had problems or deal with censorship at the moment you where exhibiting your work?
Sure …different countries (cultures) have different feelings about certain work…like Germany doesn’t like naked pregnant women.

10.- Besides you, who are the ultimate master minds behind first class BDSM-Fetish art? Today?
Dave Naz does good work…not fetish though…Fakir Musafar and his wife Cleo Dubois…Steve Diet Goedde, few photographs care about the clothes…for me its all about the woman and what she is wearing or half wearing….bound or unbound…most photogs today are into the rope bondage…whoops …must include Araki as a master