“I always considered the photo session as a body contact. It is a physical relationship between a main and a woman, similar to lovemaking.”

At age 70, Nobuyoshi Araki pushes once again eroticism to its extremes by presenting us Shibari, or the erotic art of bondage, geometrical figures predefined thanks to a rope made of hemp. Shibari is also the term used for the art of packing parcels.

Most of Araki’s models, wrapped in shimmering kimonos, are presented to us like magnificent presents, while denouncing in their submission the imprisonment of Japanese mentalities.