Stiletto One of my earliest images is of my wife Artemi’s leg, produced in 1998 when she was 29. It is a beautiful hand-coloured x-ray image of her tibia, fibula, ossa tarsi, metatarsals and phalanges, or simply titled ‘foot in stiletto’. It is a modern scientific vision of a ‘femme fatale’ … the allure of the woman in a stiletto and the visual insight as to how the foot is indubitably contorted

Photograph: Hugh Turvey