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"L'empire érotique" is a collection of works by French writer and photographer Romain Slocombe (1953–). Born in Paris and educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Slocombe began his career as an illustrator in the late 1970s for counterculture magazines such as "Métal Hurlant," and built his own unique visual world while also being associated with the graphic collective Bazooka, known for its punk-influenced expression. Later, he also published many novels and is known as an artist who traverses photography, literature, and illustration. This book is a collection of photographs published in 1994, and is one of a series that strongly reflects the themes that run through Slocombe's work, such as fetishistic images centered on female figures and his interest in Japanese culture. His unique worldview, in which memories of war, gazes on the body, and a sense of precarious beauty intersect, is an important work for understanding his expressive activities that move between photography and literature.