Sleek Images

"Malcolm's work has an immediate feel, an intimacy of moment. He has said that his years of underwater photography strongly influenced his current work; he jokes that fetish models and tropical fish have much in common. An official photographer for Skin Two's RubberBall and many fetish events over the past 8 years, he has an excellent skill at catching beautiful and impressive moments of performances. A fetishist himself, his studio work has a real ring of truth beyond the sexy images."

Malcolm started doing photography when he was seven years old, over the years focusing on city and landscapes, and animal portraits. His first "real" camera was a Kodak Instamatic 126 in his pre-teens. In high school, he moved up to an Olympus OM-10 (inspired by a cousin's OM-1). When he moved to California, underwater photography took over as his main passion, and he spent ridiculous amounts of money on Nikon, Ikelite and Subal equipment, and travel, all to keep little rolls of (typically) Fuji Velvia happy and dry.

After he'd been living in Southern California for a time, Malcolm got involved with the fetish scene, and within 18 months was shooting event photos for SkinTwo and other national and international fetish events. Fish and cityscapes became secondary to people in shiny clothes, doing kinky things. Very quickly in this process, quality consumer digital photography became a reality, and even more money went off to Nikon and Fuji.

Malcolm and Zille met in 2000, at a mutual friend's going away party. Zille was running a porn site, and wanted guest photographers to be featured on it, and Malcolm (obviously) was a fetish photographer who was delighted to come do some fun shoots.

Highlights from their early working together are:

• a cover of On Our Backs magazine
• a vampire-fetish shoot
• a sexy water-bondage shoot
• and one shoot that involved a pink union-suit, chocolate syrup, Tabasco sauce, and lilac soap...

Zille had nursed a crush on Malcolm since first meeting him, and finally, in 2005, they were both available and "on the market" to start dating. He ended up collaring her on their very first proper date (we won't go into the improper ones!) and they were married in the spring of 2008.

Theirs is a partnership in every sense: fellow photographers working together and inspiring each other, 24/7 Master and slave, and best friends.

Zille Defeu has swung between the front and the back of the camera for years. Even her introduction to photography was modeling for her boyfriend in freshman year of high school. By junior year of high school, she had a photo major, and was already freaking out her teacher and classmates with her odd subject matters and points of view.

In college she was mostly behind the camera, trying to convince girls to pose naked for her. When they wimped out, she did her own nude self-portraits.

Also during college, Zille discovered that she was a raging pervert, although her friends had known this about her all along. Many years of a journey of discovery followed (indeed, the journey is far from over, still!) and involved things like working at a peep show, running her own porn site, and lots of time spent playing with friends and lovers as either a Top or bottom.

After college, her career in fetish and erotic modeling distracted her from her proper place, behind the camera, but taught her a great deal about how to work with models and all sorts of things that models dislike in photographers. Many photographers she worked with felt that Zille was a better model for being a photographer, and she now feels that she is a better photographer for having been a model.

Now Zille is focusing on fetish photography with her own unique perspective, and an assortment of (frequently very silly) projects she is enjoying tremendously. Graphics and web design are her vocation. She also takes time to write the occasional article for Skin Two and will someday finish that erotic novel she's working on. Until then, she wastes scads of time on her blog, zilledefeu.com, writing about being a raging pervert.