Yes, I know! Shibari (or kinbaku in the correct way to name it) has became trendy after "Fifty Shades of Gray" novel but the rope bondage community stands a while before the book and, indeed, the book itself doesn't tell about shibari scenese in the Mr. Gray and Anastasja relationship, else to leave apart rope bondage from the preferred games of the "perverted" tycoon character.
Shibari come to western thanks to the Bizarre magazine of Mr. John Willie in the fifties and western bondage come to Japan thanks the japanese Kitan Club Magazine in the same period. So, we cannot know who learnt from who: they shared rope bondage knowledge and aestethic (more by smuggling) from novels and photographies travelling across the Pacific Ocean hidden in the double bottom of fuel tanks of military trucks to avoid censorship laws.
All in all we are not concerned about the fatherood of the rope bondage and the what is it the "very traditional bondage". I'm mostly interested on the aestethic of the rope bondage and its photographic depictions.
And from this interest come my question: "why I shoot on shibari scenes?"
I shoot in shibari (kinbaku) scene mostly because it is an unconventional way to depict the beauty.
Ropes call for unusual tensions and poses, unusual moods. No longer to be a way to humiliate and decrease dignity of the models, ropes work as an highlight of their bodies possibility to stretch and resist, their muscolar strengt and their harmonic natures.
Although I've shoot on complete shibari scenes as "photoreportages" and I love depict the intense relationship between the person who ties and the one is tied, I love work on "solo" scenes too, where models (beautiful tattooed ... you know I do prefer them ;-) ) can express their emotions and show their strengh and harmonic body inside the ropes web.
It's exciting shoot on this, develop pictures (both digital and analogyc) and postproduce them to share the beauty of those women tied and streched but free and happy to be constrained.
Happyness is a personal feeling, it can come from a lot of sources, one of them is the beauty to be constrained, and beautiful, inside a ropes web, to feel theyselves beauty and desirable by the poses and those emotions the ropes tramit.
So, I shoot photosets on shibari (kinbaku) because I love shoot photosets on happy, beautiful people.
Better if women and better of better if tattooed.
Love!!
PS: make it sane, safe and - more of all - very consensual!!
