“Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar”– so said Helmut Newton. Humorous always, with a penchant for the outrageous, this was the man who shot Elsa Peretti, resplendent in a bunny costume, against Manhattan skyscrapers and captured Jerry Hall on the beach in a perfectly sculpted wrestle. To be lensed by Newton was to have made it, his dramatic black and white stills cementing his status as an essential artist of the 20^th century. From June 17 to September 4 more than 200 photographs captured by the ‘king of kink’ will be on display at Amsterdam’s Foam gallery as part of Helmut Newton – A Retrospective – a large-scale tribute to Newton’s provocative canon.