If Bruce Weber’s hard-bodied, shiny, happy Abercrombie boys and girls set the tone for sexually charged fashion photography for much of the nineties, and Terry Richardson’s trashy, bisexual leer helped usher in the new millennium, then Stephan Rabimov's sexually ambiguous, quasi-homoerotic transgressiveness is the new fashion frisson. There’s a seedy glamour to his work, but it’s a carefully calculated seediness: never so out-there as to be alienating, and enhanced with the best lighting and natural sets cities he visits provide.

“Stephan's edge is what distinguishes the work,” says Susan Kismaric, a photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art. “The way it examines the dark side, the side of things that we tend not to want to focus on. I mean, I realize that sex sells clothes, but his is a sexuality that is much more palpable and realistic.”

Stephan currently works as a Editor-in-Chief at DEPESHA Russian Lifestyle Magazine http://www.depesha.com

Stephan Rabimov © 2007

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