Zille Defeu | Fetish model & Photographer

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I don't know when I saw my first picture of Marlene Dietrich, but it was that moment when my modeling career first started. The way the light played down over her cheekbones and shaped her eyes, the way her hair glowed and her lips curved — I wanted that to be me, to be as loved by the camera as she was. I wanted to be made-up, posed and with a barely audible "click" have that moment captured for all eternity.

My first posing was for a high school boyfriend who took pictures of me at the rink where I ice skated competitively. I was little embarrassed to have him following me around the rink with a camera, but at the same time I adored the attention — and also the results. (My Mom has a poster-size version of one of those prints on her wall to this day!) However, this led not to an immediate modeling career for me, but for me to take photography classes. I had caught the photo bug at the same time as the modeling bug.

I ended up with a photo major in my high school, spending all possible hours in the darkroom, bringing things I had only imagined out of blank white paper in a bath of chemicals. However, the main things I was imagining were nudes, and in high school it was rather hard to get girls to pose for nudie pix! So I started doing self-portraits, and was soon scandalizing the high school with the semi-naked pictures of myself. Fun!

I have been professionally modeling since 1997, and every year I love it more, and get better at it. After taking so many nude images of myself through years of high school and college, I was instantly comfortable doing nude, erotic, even pornographic images. I was introduced to fetish photography in college, and felt an immediate draw to that, as well.

However, after all these years of taking pictures and modeling for them, my craving is still the same: to be like Marlene Deitrich under that light, forever perfectly lit, whose beauty is comprised of shapes, lines and curves that draw your eye again and again and again.