Touch Vienna & Touch Munich (2024)
A photographic document of tantra massage in Vienna and Munich — touch as trust, not taboo.
The exhibition on the archive →Fine Art · Intimate portrait · Artistic nude
Fine Art Photography. Images with a story to tell.
Fine art photography begins with a person and a story worth holding on to. Portraits and artistic nudes are created through trust, clear boundaries and sensitive direction.
For years, my personal work has explored identity, dignity, the body and memory. I bring that experience to every commission. It helps me make images that feel personal and true, not merely polished.
BANHALMI
We talk first. The camera comes later.
The session begins by setting the boundaries together: what may be shown, what stays private and what the photographs should carry. Nothing has to be performed, and the pace remains yours.
My artistic practice has approached the body through projects about natural beauty, cancer recovery, womanhood, fatherhood, sacred touch and the relationship between vulnerability and dignity. That history informs the care of each private commission.
Process
How the space is held
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Conversation
We discuss the personal meaning of the project, boundaries, privacy and the visual direction.
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Environment
The studio or location is prepared so that light, temperature, pace and the number of people present support safety and concentration.
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Image-making
Direction is clear but never forceful. The body is treated as part of a human story, not as an object.
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Privacy and selection
Images are selected together. Publication never follows automatically; usage remains governed by the agreed consent.
Use
The work can take several forms
- Fine art portrait
- Artistic nude and body study
- Private personal series
- A personal story of recovery or change
- Editorial or exhibition collaboration
- Book and interdisciplinary project
Selected personal work
Fine-art portraits and studies of the body
I start with the photographs closest to the personal work — identity, biography and the body — and then let the selection continue naturally into the streets, buildings, journeys and people that shaped the same eye.
From the archive
Where this work became genuinely artistic
My deepest, most personal nude art work doesn't live here — it lives in the public archive: full exhibitions and a book documented on BANHALMI ART.
Awakening — The New Beginning (2017–2018)
Women who lived through gynaecological cancer, photographed with their scars — not as wounds, but as proof.
The exhibition on the archive →Awakening: The New Beginning! (book, 2017)
The more intimate half of the Awakening project: twelve women's stories, fifteen images, in their own words.
The book on the archive →Open client reviews
Client reviews
Reviews from previous clients are available below for a candid view of the atmosphere and working process.
