Photographer, art director and former musician Steve Hiett places his high-fashion sirens against William Klein-inspired architectural backdrops. Taken from the first major exhibition of his work at this year’s Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival, where Hiett is president of the jury panel, today’s series spans over 40 years of work featured in Vogue Italia, Nova and Marie Claire. British-born Hiett stumbled upon photography by fate, when he began to document his psych/pop band The Pyramids on tour, which led to him shooting rock legends like Jimi Hendrix backstage. Later electrocuted during one of his own performances, Hiett was left with a phobia of electric guitars and fell back on his roots in the visual arts, picking up the camera. “It’s hard for me to listen to music and think about a photo at the same time,” says the photographer, who art directed Arthur Elgort’s influential ‘Model Manual’ book and now resides in Paris shooting for clients including Galeries Lafayette and agnès b. On judging today’s evolving photography landscape, Hiett says: “With the omnipresence of digital anyone can take a good picture, but what more do you bring to it? What is different from everyone else?”