“I see my images as film stills from a movie that doesn’t exist” – Miles Aldridge on depicting the hyper-surreal

Rosie Lowitt, Hero, April 7, 2025

In a career spanning thirty years, British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge has established a world that exaggerates and distorts our own, his highly stylised images veering towards a dreamy, saturated surrealism. Lurking beneath his staged scenes of domestic bliss are suggestions of something more sinister; from a meticulously constructed set, Aldridge’s models gaze blankly beyond the lens.