ideas of what is attractive and what is sexy, but Paul doesn't see it as a challenge. "I'm a man and so there's always a certain tension there, but I'm also a very professional artist so I keep a big distance. In each work, I'm almost a different kind of photographer. Sometimes I'm like a dirty old man, and sometimes I'm a doctor, if you can imagine that. I can be five different photographers in the same series." "I want to make a whole body of work, not just one image. Every series has got a different fetish. There is always a type of beauty there because, as an artist, you cannot escape it." Does he think that nudity can ever exist entirely separately from sex, or implications of sex? "I have a lot of nude collections, of medical photography, police and war photography and so I think it is possible, absolutely." More often than not, women are at the centre of Paul's photographic projects, but he does take the time to explore other subjects. "I made a series about swans, and one about fountains. When I photograph fountains, I have an obsession with that for a few months. Photographing women is the same. I cannot stop making nude images but I can't say why. Part of that must be because I like to play with the archetype of the nude woman as a clich." One of the most noticeable aspects of Paul's photographs, when you look at them together,