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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]