Bullying Miss Nobody
There is a Polish movie from the nineties directed by Andrzej Wajda called ‘Miss Nobody’ (‘Panna Nikt’). It tells a story of a friendship between young girls which turns into abuse. Scenes from this movie are my first recollections of seeing public humiliation. And they haunted me for a long time. Who knows, they might even be the cause of my eroticisation of humiliation and social rejection. Or at least, they brought it to the surface.
When I told this story to the rest of the crew of Kinbaku Society of Berlin the day before we were planning to do a photoshoot in an abandoned building on the outskirts of Berlin, the idea for this series was born. My childhood fantasies got mixed with the vision of the photographer, the rigger, the models, the assistants, and the space itself to arrive at the results that you will see below.
Beware, because you are about to enter the realm of dark fantasies and violence born in unexpected places. And you might like what you see.
It is not only men who are violent against women. Women can be violent too. And there are many different kinds of violence.
There is the violence of tight rope biting into the skin. There is violence of twisted arms and hard fingers pressing into the flesh. There is violence of punches and violence of kicks. And that of slaps.
But there is also the violence of having someone’s face thrown into dirt and words of abuse written onto it. There is violence of shame, of humiliation, and of social rejection.
You can rape someone’s body. And you can also rape their soul.
Photography: Darkpath; Rigger: Iter Impius; Models: Door, Serotinal, Saara Rei; Lifter: Samuel; Light assistant: Kaley; Background story support: Komainu; Photography mentor: Zor; Rigging mentor: Alexander NawaRonin.