Silly Jokes (or The Fetish Book)
When I was 10 years old my mother told me that foot fetish was something common among men. I don't remember exactly why she gave me this information, but suddenly I started looking at women feet like I've never done before. I was completely mesmerized by my literature teacher's feet and I started being ashamed of mine, for no reason. I used to go to my grandma's pool with sneakers and only took them out immediately before entering the pool.
By the same time, I had an uncle that used to play in the pool with me and my cousins a very silly joke: he liked drowning us for a few seconds in the water and see us struggling to come to the surface.
More than ten years later, I started photographing fetish parties and started discovering more people with similar fetishes as mine and felt more comfortable to show my true self. I saw a friend drowning another for pleasure and suddenly the memories from my childhood came to me.
"Silly Jokes" or "The Fetish Book" is a project about fetish parties in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These parties nowadays are part of my reality and keep showing me how human beings can be different in their desires and personalities. It intrigues and fascinates me how situations can get completely different meanings depending on the context and how preferences can be born in early childhood. It is a work that wants to talk about human desire, at the same time that aims to talk about myself.
By the same time, I had an uncle that used to play in the pool with me and my cousins a very silly joke: he liked drowning us for a few seconds in the water and see us struggling to come to the surface.
More than ten years later, I started photographing fetish parties and started discovering more people with similar fetishes as mine and felt more comfortable to show my true self. I saw a friend drowning another for pleasure and suddenly the memories from my childhood came to me.
"Silly Jokes" or "The Fetish Book" is a project about fetish parties in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These parties nowadays are part of my reality and keep showing me how human beings can be different in their desires and personalities. It intrigues and fascinates me how situations can get completely different meanings depending on the context and how preferences can be born in early childhood. It is a work that wants to talk about human desire, at the same time that aims to talk about myself.