Early on in his photography career, Dutch artist Erwin Olaf photographed male models wearing ladies’ hats. In one of these black-and-white images, Hennie (1985), a nude male model leans into ...

Even with his illness — and though assistants could certainly do it for him — Mr. Olaf still processes all his own black and white photos in the darkroom. Image Mr. Olaf, in his studio in ...