sexuality – Women Empowerment

Photographer’s Journey: How water makes you feel safe

AnyaSunita — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00:31 +0000

It was fascinating to hear from the many women we portrayed in our book Orgasm about their sexual lives which varied a lot. For example, Nirvano talked about how including water into her erotic life gives her a feeling of protection: “I have had many experiences in water or under waterfalls and I love surfing ...

Photographer’s Journey: Getting to know your sexuality while having fun with shower heads

AnyaSunita — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:00:31 +0000

For our book Orgasm we interviewed Dragonfly who talked about her pleasurable experience with shower heads: “Detachable shower heads are just fun if you want to clean everything. One day I showered to clean THAT thing and I was like ‘oh wow!’. So that’s why I took a lot of long showers. To which my mother ...

Photographer’s Journey: Having the first orgasm in summer camp

AnyaSunita — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:00:01 +0000

An excerpt from the interview with Solveig from my book Orgasm: “I remember that when I had my first orgasm, I was 15 years old, and I was in a summer camp which had big army-like tents with beds inside. The girls had a tent, and the boys had a tent. It was dark outside, ...

Photographer’s Journey: The many different definitions of eroticism and pleasure

AnyaSunita — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:00:57 +0000

The women I work with have so many definitions of eroticism and the role of an orgasm. Each one of those definitions adds insight to the powerful aspects of sexuality in a woman’s life. One woman we interviewed, Gudrun, said: “For me, orgasms can be very different. Sometimes they are gentle like a wave in ...

Photographer’s journey: Changing my photographic style for Maria Beatty

AnyaSunita — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:00:03 +0000

Maria Beatty, a filmmaker who lived on the 5th floor of the Chelsea Hotel, was among the first women to agree to be in my book Erotic Lives of Women. As a hotel lobby friend she trusted me, so she invited us (co-editor Marion and I) to her room to shoot her and a partner’s ...

Photographer’s journey: Discovering and exploring my sexuality for the first time

AnyaSunita — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:00:57 +0000

As a child I stood in the hall outside the open door of my parents’ bedroom listening to the sound of my father’s breathing. He couldn’t sleep. My mother said I mustn’t disturb him as he was recovering from a heart attack and was weak from his World War II injuries. He was in his ...

Photographer’s journey: The dangerous road to knowing yourself

AnyaSunita — Wed, 09 May 2018 12:00:01 +0000

Through book projects I’ve discovered over and over how life affirming sexual pleasure is. I was obliged to care for my parents at an early age and this interfered with my personal space, which is why I still offer immediacy easily to people as I think I will gain insight and connection with them. Sometimes ...

Photographer’s journey: The healing power of photography

AnyaSunita — Wed, 02 May 2018 14:00:38 +0000

Since my first published photograph of a woman with a wedding dress ripped off at the waist, standing over a huge cactus, was published in the Village Voice, I’ve often chosen to explore taboos. Over the years the projects went deeper into the chasm of sexual identity. Photography like radiation is dangerous and uncanny but ...