An
erotica photographer whose specialties are
BDSM,
smokers,
vintage lingerie, and all kinds of
fetishes. He uses models of all kinds, short and tall,
thin and
fat for his works, some of them in his books
Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls and
Eric Kroll's Beauty Parade, both published by Benedikt
Taschen Verlag GmbH.
(from the Eric Kroll FAQ in http://www.fetish-usa.com/about/kroll_faq.shtml)
Q. Do you think you are a pornographer and if you don't, why not?
A: I'm not a pornographer because no two models are shot in the same manner. I factor in the person that I'm photographing. I spend time with the person I am to shoot. In a sense it is a collaboration. Pornography for me is the same `spread' shot taken over and over again. The focus is on the pussy and not on the message in the photo. It's like watching mindless TV over and over. That's pornography. The viewer doesn't have to participate. He or she doesn't involve one's imagination. I want the viewer's imagination to be stimulated by my photographs.