Coups de Théâtre

Humiliation, pain, queerness and so-called perversity are freely celebrated in BDSM. This celebration however inevitably takes place out of sight from the outside world. While the men and women in these photographs live ordinary lives during the week, they are only able to throw off the shackles of social conventions by chaining and tying each other during the weekend in basements and shielded spaces. Here, their explicit fantasies become obscured reality.