Kirigami and d.i.f.y.s. created this session alone in the studio. We chose to experiment with the aesthetics of the Japanese schoolgirl, reinterpreting them through rope, pose and light. Within Japanese erotic imagery and pop visual culture, the school uniform has become an immediately recognisable archetype, often used to create tension between discipline and transgression. Here […]
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Tenshiko in a white dress
This studio session with Marta Tenshiko explores the internal rotation of the hips and the line it creates through the lower legs. As the thighs rotate inward, the feet open outward: an anatomical detail that produces a sensual, distinctly feminine geometry, made more visible by the contrast between the white dress, natural rope and dark […]
Camelia
This was our first shoot with Camelia and one of her earliest experiences of semenawa. The visual study grows from the contrast between white lingerie and black hair, shaped by raking light that alternates illuminated areas with deep shadow. The studio is reduced to its essentials, without constructed sets or photographic props. What remains is […]
Agura on a Hashira
This session with Marta Tenshiko is built around a formal contrast: the body’s full, sinuous volumes meet the straight, rigid and angular lines of the hashira. In the opening photographs the poses are softer and more composed; the post becomes a geometric frame that brings the curves of the tied body into relief. As the […]
Elettris in a Flower dress
This session belongs to the same period as our previous collaboration with Elettris. In the studio’s spare, dreamlike atmosphere, Tenshiko enters the frame while building the tie: the relationship between the two becomes part of the visual narrative rather than a simple backstage element. The sequence moves from the tatami into an inverted suspension, alternating […]
Floorwork with Tenshiko
This floorwork session was created in the studio by Federico Kirigami and Marta Tenshiko alone, as a study of transitions on the ground. The floor completely changes the technical problem: moving a bound person’s body without allowing it to strike the surface abruptly demands continuous control of weight, rope and every point of support. Marta […]
White shirt session
One of Kirigami’s earliest photographic studies, created alone in the studio with Kitsune. In this session the visual research moves away from hard chiaroscuro and explores softer, lower-contrast light, keeping the model luminous and clearly legible even in the most intense passages. The sequence tells a moment of capture: the white shirt becomes part of […]
Marta’s Elbows
This session grew from a shared moment of research in an empty studio, with Marta Tenshiko tied and photographed by Federico Kirigami. The starting point was an unusual arm harness built around the closure of the elbows and inspired by a photograph by Nureki Sensei. With no assistants present, the atmosphere became intimate and solitary: […]