Carl Stanley

In a career spanning 25 years, Carl has worked on photo-shoots for publications such as Vogue and Dazed & Confused, and with numerous celebrities including Helen Mirren, Jerry Hall and Paula Abdul. KISS & MAKE UP is Carl's first published book.

PRAISE FOR 'KISS & MAKE UP':

‘Brave, honest and hugely entertaining, I laughed and cried and above all couldn’t stop turning the pages’ – Lorraine Kelly

‘Carl sets his own soundtrack to this vivid and colourful book. I’m thrilled to have been part of that soundtrack. Wonderful, captures the time perfectly’ – Marc Almond

`Hilarious and heartening, you may need to retouch your mascara after reading’ - Damian Barr

‘Eloquent, witty and wicked’ – Toyah Willcox

‘A great ride. Sometimes a laugh, sometimes a heartbreaker, usually wildly over-dressed, this first-person tale of survival is a bit like the pop-haunted decades it whirls us back into – years when being a young queer took a lot of nerve as well as a lot of eyeliner’ – Neil Bartlett