Ever since Karl Lagerfeld gave him his first digital camera, Olivier Zahm the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the critically-acclaimed magazine Purple Fashion has been taking pictures that he regularly publishes in the Night section of his magazine as well as on his website, Purple Diary. This book largely features Zahm s personal pictures from the past seven years including images of nightlife and parties, friends, girlfriends, sex, celebrities, landscape and architecture. His mostly black and white photos combine his favourite erotic references, such as the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Helmut Newton, and Richard Kern, with a typically nineties snapshot aesthetic which gives a feeling of intimacy and reality to his pictures. All images are credited and often commented on by Zahm, lending a direct, personal edge to this story. Olivier Zahm worked as an art critic for Artforum, Flash Art, Art Press and Texte zur Kunst during the 1980s and early 1990s. He is a renowned curator and has worked on over 150 exhibitions of contemporary art, for institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 1992, Zahm founded Purple Prose magazine (1992 1998) with Elein Fleiss, and the publication has created spin-offs such as Purple Fiction (1992 1998), Purple Sexe (1998 2001), Purple magazine (1998 2003), Purple Journal (2004 present), Purple Fashion (1995 1998, 2004 present), and Purple Books, a publishing house. The  realistic , sometimes dubbed  anti-fashion aesthetics of Purple was a reaction against the glamour of the eighties and can be linked to the global counterculture of that time, with the work of Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Mario Sorrenti.