SESSIONS – Fetisch in Deutschland

In this empathetic and award winning photographic work on sexual fetish in Germany, Florian Müller takes us on a journey to the core, to primeval desires and needs of the human existence.

Florian Müller
Nora Gantenbrink

22,5 × 27,5 cm
160 pages
68 photographs
English, german
Hardcover, bound in linen, open spine
ISBN 978-3-901753-95-4
September 2015

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Authors

  • Florian Müller

    Florian Müller studied photography at Hochschule Hannover. His work SESSIONS won him the Prix de la Photographie Paris and an [...] more

  • Nora Gantenbrink

    Nora Gantenbrink studied Politics, History and Communication in Münster and visited the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg with [...] more

Awards

  • One Eyeland Photography Awards
  • Px3 Award - Prix de la Photographie
  • Art Directors Club Deutschland
  • Deutscher Fotobuchpreis NOMINIERT
  • Moscow International Foto Awards
  • Die schönsten deutschen Bücher

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“You have to imagine human desires as a sea of multicoloured marbles. Impossible to count them all. And you keep finding one that you did not know before.” Nora Gantenbrink

In his book SESSIONS photographer Florian Müller takes us on a journey across Germany and advances to the core, to primeval desires and needs of the human existence. The general image of fetishist sexuality is dominated by violent fantasies, latex and leather, but the real diversity is much greater. Müller’s pictures are only black and white at first glance. If you look closely, you notice shades of grey and other nuances. He worked on the so-called Candy Crush Project for several years, an unusual photographic work on fetishism in Germany. He encountered people often thought of as ‘perverse’. But no one in this volume wanted to be denounced as ‘sick’ or be socially stigmatized. For them their individual fetish allowed them a more fulfilled life, some claimed to have found ‘themselves’ in this way. Sometimes it took weeks before they trusted him and let him in on their so-called sessions, their sexual games. Florian Müller did not abuse their trust. He took the people in front of his camera seriously, did not serve any clichés. His pictures are not revolting, but close, almost tender. When a domina embraces her guest. When an early retiree finds fulfilment in a vacuum bed. When a man who likes to take on the role of a horse turns totally calm. Müller says: “Most sessions are shockingly harmless. What the people whose stories are shown in my pictures have in common is a meaningful quest for elementary human needs, such as freedom, warmth and comfort, maybe even happiness.”

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“You have to imagine human desires as a sea of multicoloured marbles. Impossible to count them all. And you keep finding one that you did not know before.” Nora Gantenbrink

In his book SESSIONS photographer Florian Müller takes us on a journey across Germany and advances to the core, to primeval desires and needs of the human existence. The general image of fetishist sexuality is dominated by violent fantasies, latex and leather, but the real diversity is much greater. Müller’s pictures are only black and white at first glance. If you look closely, you notice shades of grey and other nuances. He worked on the so-called Candy Crush Project for several years, an unusual photographic work on fetishism in Germany. He encountered people often thought of as ‘perverse’. But no one in this volume wanted to be denounced as ‘sick’ or be socially stigmatized. For them their individual fetish allowed them a more fulfilled life, some claimed to have found ‘themselves’ in this way. Sometimes it took weeks before they trusted him and let him in on their so-called sessions, their sexual games. Florian Müller did not abuse their trust. He took the people in front of his camera seriously, did not serve any clichés. His pictures are not revolting, but close, almost tender. When a domina embraces her guest. When an early retiree finds fulfilment in a vacuum bed. When a man who likes to take on the role of a horse turns totally calm. Müller says: “Most sessions are shockingly harmless. What the people whose stories are shown in my pictures have in common is a meaningful quest for elementary human needs, such as freedom, warmth and comfort, maybe even happiness.”

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Weight1.23 kg / 2.71 lbs
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