Pole dancing and body painting collect millions of followers online, yet in real life they’re still too often reduced to ‘erotica’ and ‘sensuality’. The technique behind it tends to get forgotten. And that’s something Sarina couldn’t let go of.
Photographer and pole dancer Sarina Mannaert knows better than anyone how rich both art forms really are. Since pole dancing techniques are named after animals, that became the foundation of a project four years in the making. Twelve animals, fully realised in body paint and make-up, posed and photographed against entirely hand-painted backdrops.
Object
Artbook
Printing technique
Offset (LE-UV)
Hotfoil Luxor 220 (goudfolie) Leonhard Kurz Benelux BV
Material
Cover: IMITLIN E/R05 tela neve 120g/m2
Inner pages: MultiDesign® Original White 150g/m2
Graphic design
Tina De Souter
Meanwhile, she reached out to publisher after publisher — only to be met with silence. The project she could see so clearly seemed invisible to the outside world.
Until finally, one publisher said yes. With one condition: she’d have to fund a significant part of it herself. Through crowdfunding, Sarina raised over €15,000 to bring the book to life. That says everything about the power of her story.
After four years of creating and fighting for recognition, she trusted us to print it.
A work where the line between photography and painting blurs so completely, you simply can’t stop looking.
