Gruesome And Erotic Photos Of Octopuses Embracing The Bodies Of Japanese Women [NSFW]
Japanese photographer Daikichi Amano has a disturbing, erotic photo series that will most likely make you turn your head away in disgust.
By Sadho Ram — 01 Feb 2014, 02:04 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Daikichi Amano is a Japanese photographer living in Tokyo. Amano’s photographs are drawn from his own private fantasies.
Daikichi Amano is a self-proclaimed “perverted master of fish and girls.” He is anything but shy, frankly claiming his film-work is “not art, but porn“.
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Straddling the lines between artistic and fetish pornography, his creepy photos show his nude subjects bound and wrapped by the tentacles of dead octopuses.
designtaxi.comDaikichi Amano explores the gruesome connection between Japan's metaphorical and literal consumption of both the female form and creatures of the sea
Octopus carcasses embrace women's naked bodies, dripping across their skin and morphing into weird appendages that blur the line between woman and animal.
While he calls his work 'not art, but porn', many seems to disagree with him. Mondo Bizzarro Gallery describe his work quite eloquently:
Amano’s photographs are drawn from his own private fantasies. Fantasies that are animistic, animalistic and atavistic in nature, but all-too-human in execution, evoking primal fears and desires.
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In Amano’s world, the human body is worshipped and admired for its awesome beauty but also deformed and fused with nature – with wood, blood, bones, scales and feathers – transforming it into an erotic grotesque.
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But these frightful dioramas are also cut through with the blackest humour.
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Daikishi Amano's images draw from traditional Japanese iconography and mythology
Amano’s work trades on the overwhelming curiosity and desire to witness what is forbidden. He not only reveals what is behind the door but shows us what is beneath the skin.
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In doing so, he tells us something quite profound about the fraught and fearful relationship between humans, nature and sexuality.
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