The pictures are complex scenes portraying bored, unfulfilled women with a ghostly pallor and enchanting beauty, captured and immortalised on film.
Aldridge has never given into digital temptation. Although known for his retouching ability, most of his effects come from the light and colour already available in the studio.
The penetrating, expressive sketches produced before each shot are another feature of Aldridge's work. Karl Lagerfeld and Gerhard Steidl have gathered them together in a book, "Pictures for Photographs". Aldridge's work has been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker and Vogue Italia, publications with whom he collaborates regularly.
