JULIE COOK is a Lecturer on Photography at the University of East London. Other publications include ‘Baby Oil and Ice, Striptease in East London’ (Do-Not Press 2002), ‘Zeropolis, The Experience of Las Vegas (Reaktion 2003), the Las Vegas Diaries (Back in Black Publishing 2005). The work continues Julie Cook’s interest in sexuality and voyeurism and our desire for fantasy and escape in western culture.