Suze Randall (born 18 May 1946) is an English model, photographer, and pornographer. After giving up modelling, she devoted her time to erotic photography and became the first woman to shoot

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for ''

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'' newspaper. She was the first female staff photographer for both ''

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'' and '' Hustler''. Randall is one of the early female pornographic film directors; she made ''Kiss and Tell'' in 1980. She is the president of adult content website Suze Network.

Life and work

Working first as a nurse and then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends. In 1972, she played an

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's film '' Love in the Afternoon''. She gave up modelling and devoted her time to erotic photography becoming the first female to shoot ''

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'' newspaper. After working for years for top adult magazines such as '' Penthouse'' and ''Playboy'', she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years, her work has included bondage imagery. Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model Lillian Müller and photographed her for ''Playboy''. Müller was chosen as Playmate of the Month in August 1975 and subsequently Playmate of the Year in 1976. In a pictorial in ''Playboy''s May 1976 issue, Randall was both photographer and model. She went on to shoot a much more explicit self-portrait in a June 1977 ''Hustler'' pictorial. Randall was staff photographer from 1975 until 1977 for ''Playboy'' under the supervision of the magazine's West Coast editor, Marilyn Grabowski, and from 1977 until 1979 staff photographer for ''Hustler''. Later, she provided ''

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'' feature photo layouts. Randall has shot album covers for recording artists including

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and Robert Palmer, a music video for

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, and also has photographed the imagery for the British Lamb's Navy Rum calendar.

Personal life

In the 1970s Randall married writer Humphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical book ''Suze'' (1977), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and managed Suze Randall Productions websites. They had three children together, including erotic photographer Holly Randall (born 1978). Taormino, Tristan "Meet the Randalls," ''

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''Meet the Randalls''
Knipe died in 2023, more than fifty years after he and Randall became a couple.

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