Project BLACK MADONNA FOR PRESIDENT/Series FEAR

Embodiment of YIN, YANG and the energy which combines the two and creates not only new human life, but everything new: the EROTIC

„For my project www.blackmadonnaforpresident.com I am looking for women who do not correspond to the ideal of beauty that is presented to us by the advertising industry. I am looking for women who feel comfortable with their bellies. I look for women with hair on their legs and under their armpits. I look for women who do not confuse being angry with being ugly or hysterical. I look for women who are proud of their sensuality and eroticism. I look for women who feel erotic in old age or with physical limitations against the usual clichés. I am looking for challenging and wild women of any skin color. I look for women who are vulnerable and soft. I look for women who are not ashamed of their spirituality. I look for mothers who are not ashamed to breastfeed their children in public. I look for sexually self-determined women who don't ask a man for permission before they join, neither their husband nor their boss.“

Every participant gets this text before every photo session and I talk about it before every shoot. Nevertheless, it happens again and again that women change their minds afterwards. Often they approve photos and then withdraw them after showing them to their partner. Her partner is Sanyassin, that is, disciple of Osho! Finding exhibition spaces is also difficult. In an Osho center, after I set up the exhibit, I was censored for three topless photos. I also had photos censored at a competition. Normally you don't see this, but at one competition I could watch photos being censored. Most participants also don't want to be tagged on social media and hence don´t help me as multipliers. If you look around on social media, you would think Western women are sexually free. We are far from that.