***Received a BRONZE in the 'Book, Documentary' section and a BRONZE in the 'Book, People' section of the OneEyeLand Awards 2016** "Most sessions are shockingly harmless. What the people whose stories are shown in my pictures have in common is a meaningful quest for elementary human needs, such as freedom, warmth and comfort, maybe even happiness," Florian Müller recounts. He photographs fetishists; people who dress up as dogs or let themselves be bound and hung from the ceiling.

It is their way of relaxing and achieving fulfilment. At first sight what you see is masquerade, Kafkaesque scenes, danses macabres, transformations into animals, into slaves, into a shrink-wrapped maggot. Behind the masquerade lurks stories of people and their needs. Of desires, wounds and dreams and the pictures tell us these stories. Florian Müller worked on fetishism in Germany for several years. Sometimes it took weeks before the people trusted him and let him in on their sessions. He did not abuse their trust. His pictures are not revolting, but close, almost tender. Text in English and German.

AUTHOR: Florian Muller studied photography at the Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. His work SESSIONS won him the Prix de la Photographie Paris and an award from the Art Directors Club Germany. Nora Gantenbrink studied politics, history and communication in Munster and attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg with internships at Berliner Zeitung, ZEIT, SPIEGEL ONLINE, and SPIEGEL. In 2013 she began to work as a reporter for STERN magazine. She also writes short stories. SELLING POINTS: . In this empathetic photographic work on sexual fetish in Germany, Florian Muller illustrates primeval desires and needs of the human existence. This book is a testimony to tolerance and otherness in an elementary human domain . Limited, numbered and signed edition of 1,000 copies . Florian Muller's work Sessions won him the Prix de la Photographie Paris and an award from the Art Directors Club Germany 68 b/w