Steven Klein is a contemporary fine art and commercial photographer. A highly influential and in-demand figure in the fashion industry, his photographs of models, actors, and celebrities are characterized by a sinister and enigmatic sense of dread. Klein's personal vocabulary of cinematic and pop culture references is evident throughout his work, often involving ideas of hypersexuality, ultra-violence, cyberpunk, biomechanical life, and bourgeois society. Of his work’s disturbing and opaque quality, the artist has observed, “I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There’s a sense that you can’t get in.”