Play Sessions

Come for the experience

Leave with the evidence

A Play Session combines a bespoke shibari experience with photography, allowing you to become completely involved in what is happening rather than spending the session focused on posing, expressions, or how you look in front of the camera.

Instead of performative guided posing sequences we design a scene containing real sensations and raw emotions that you experience, and I capture them.

FORGET ABOUT THE CAMERA

At my Exquisite Photography shoots everything happens for the camera, from set design and lighting to where you look, and the goal is to craft the most beautiful photos of you.

A Play Session works differently: once we begin, rope, sensory restrictions, impact, wax and other forms of play take over while photography happens in the background. The intention is not to manufacture a perfect arch with appropriately fitting facial expression.I photograph what actually happens: anticipation, focus, resistance, tension, release - all the moments when you forget completely that you’re being photographed.

“I was so engaged with the experience and very rarely thinking about the camera at all.”
— A

BUILT ABOUT YOU

“Normal” boudoir sessions follow a plan, moving from set to set and going through posing sequences. No two Play Sessions follow the same script.

Before your session, we discuss what you enjoy, what interests you, what you would like to experience, your boundaries, and how far you want the intensity to go. From there, I design the session around you.

Some people want only the rope. Some want to go all in. The choice is yours.

YET SOMEHOW, THERE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS.

This is the strange part.

You may remember the texture of rope or sense of releasing control. You might recall the feeling of anticipation or specific sounds or studio fragrance.

You will barely remember me picking up the camera.

And afterward, you get to see yourself inside something you normally experience only from within.

One client admitted that after becoming completely absorbed in her session, she wondered whether it had even been possible to make beautiful photographs while she wasn't thinking about the camera.

Then she saw them.

“I swear I fell in love with every single shot.”

WHAT A PLAY SESSION IS LIKE

Your session begins long before we meet.You will complete a detailed questionnaire covering your medical history, interests, boundaries, and intensity, followed by a private consultation where we go through the details of your experience together before the day of your session.

When you arrive, we’ll chat again to make sure we’re on the same page and there is no unanswered questions. And then we play.

The session develops according your expressed interests, your responses in the moment, and within the boundaries established beforehand. I will be taking photographs of you throughout the experience without interrupting. Afterward, you will see a carefully edited collection of photographs from the session and choose the images you want to keep.

YOU CHOSE THIS.

It’s incredibly powerful and vulnerable to see photographic evidence of yourself in a state you normally experience only from the inside.

The camera remembers details you don't from the second-by-second changes in your body to the expressions you never knew you made at the moments where control slipped.

And the person looking back at you afterward is still unmistakably you.

That is the point.

PLAY SESSIONS

Bespoke shibari and bdsm experiences in Victoria, BC.

Experience Fee: $500

includes pre-session consultation, scene design, 3-5 hour session, aftercare, and viewing appointment.

Digital images and wall art are purchased separately with packages starting from $1,000