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This was one of my first photographic shoots working alone in the studio. Marta Tenshiko remained in a demanding reverse prayer for over an hour, progressing from a position on the floor into suspension. Building the light also took a great deal of time. I was looking for a Caravaggesque effect: warm, raking light that […]

This was my first session with Leya. She chose the elegant pink dress herself, a delicate element that runs through the series and contrasts with the intensity of the rope work and suspensions. During the shoot we focused above all on her facial expressions and intense gaze, following their changes from the opening portrait through […]

This series with Marta Tenshiko began as a photographic study of light and shadow. Body, rope and weights gradually emerge from the darkness as the images follow the slow intensification of the ishidaki. The suffering builds over time and becomes a cathartic experience, lived and shared by two people united by deep love and intense […]

This shoot with Camelia began as an intimate encounter, created by the two of us while searching for a visual language that would suit her goth style. Warm, cutting light, deep shadows and reflections from the gold fabric shape a scene suspended between elegance, tension and vulnerability. For Kirigami, it was also one of his […]

Tetsuo is a photographer from Rome who took part in one of our photography workshops dedicated to kinbaku. The participants worked in a highly focused atmosphere, photographing sessions with Marta Tenshiko and No Pain No Pleasure, and everyone produced excellent images. Tetsuo’s photographs stood out to us for their use of light, attention to detail […]

This series was created at home during the COVID lockdown, as one of Kirigami and Marta Tenshiko’s first shared photographic experiments. With no outside photographer or assistant, they built an intimate sequence together, working with the available light, the domestic setting and a suspension that draws the body into its characteristic M shape. The gallery […]

Elettris is an Italian content creator based in London. She contacted Marta Tenshiko to propose a photographic collaboration, and this session grew from their shared work around the black dress, suspension and the dialogue between the two women. The sequence follows Tenshiko as she builds the tie, guides Elettris into an inverted suspension and remains […]

This studio session with Marta Tenshiko explores the chest piece and a third rope with hishi. The construction begins with a rigorous, clearly readable form across the upper body, while below the waist the lines gradually separate, breaking symmetry through different positions and tensions in the legs. The reference is shin–gyō–sō, an aesthetic principle rooted […]