Danilo Pasquali is awesomly bizzare. He’s a 33 year old photographer from Italy. His photography is so varied in styles but you can still tell a Danilo Pasquali shot apart from any other. He does some very creative things with masks and he has some great models. Two thumbs up for Danilo Pasquali.
Hikari Kesho is a breathtakingly good fetish/bondage photographer. His models are great and his shots are excellent. Hikari really pushes the envelope and should be in inspiration for any fetish model or photographer alike. I love that it’s all in black & white too.
Jerome Gouvrion is a pretty decent bondage photographer if your into the clean, high quality style bondage scene. His work isn’t dark, it’s not morbid, and theres no death or blasphemy involved. But none-the-less, he’s a good photographer. He has a website, and also a flickr profile.
Not really my style, but someone out there might be into it and he’s worth mentioning. So there you go.
Marc Blackie is an absolutely incredible Fetish/BDSM photography from London. His photography is abnormally incredible and his use of black & white contrast is stellar. He describes his work as “being a product of various parts of my mind; my love of the erotic, the female form & sexual fantasy and quite obviously the more sinister underbelly of these things.”
“Marc Blackie’s photographs depict a surreal, heightened eroticism in a manner that manages to be both playful and solemnly ritualistic. In elegantly-shot black and white photos – technically clear and unfussy – women with faces as impassive as kabuki masks (and sometimes, indeed, wearing actual masks) are depicted enacting little scenarios of power and contrast: light against dark; soft against spiky; innocent against corrupted; natural against artificial.
Nobuyoshi Araki is clearly a reference point in Blackie’s work and he shares the Japanese photographer’s interest in bondage themes, but also his dead-pan sense of humour. A more subtle influence, however, comes from the American Francesca Woodman. Woodman – who died by her own hand in 1981 - practised in her photography a kind of moody, backwoods surrealism, in which narrative has been siphoned away, leaving only a layer of queasy, erotic atmosphere and unanswered questions.
It is this same sense of the unknown – the feeling that something as banal as an ice cream cone can be utterly mysterious – mingled with a dark erotic impulse, that forms the heart of Marc Blackie’s work.” - Jim Anderson