In her collection Bordello, Speers has created edgy photos that play with seduction, sensuality and femininity. The romantic decadence of Paris nightlife in the 1920s and 30s - eternalized most famously, perhaps, by the photographs of Brassaï - comes to life afresh in this series of sensuous photos shot on location in former bordellos where the lavish decors have survived intact.
I created my own interpretation of the Parisian bordellos from historical references with nods to Brassai, Man Ray and Pierre Molinier, posing models in real ex-bordellos for the authentic and opulent décor.’  Speers produces this series as Fresson carbon prints: a unique 19th century hand-worked technique using a charcoal process with a sumptuous painterly quality that lends itself ideally to both series.

Karl Lagerfeld wrote: The twighlight of Vee Speers’ great photos of beautiful women causes the viewer to merge with the surroundings of the image and enter a kind of dream-like vision of an often sordid reality.  Shapes lose definition and imagination overweighs perception. Real life is left behind.. . . . the boundaries between subject and photographer become more and more indistinct. 

She shows beauty where beauty can be terribly absent.