Pandora's Box

Her Pandora’s Box series (1995) was taken in an S&M club in New York and, to a certain degree, it can be thought of as a sequel to Carnival Strippers. She linked the images to the testimonies of the people involved: the manager, the mistresses and the clients. In this small place, she discovered yet another relationship to pain and violence focusing on controlled acts of violence producing self-inflicted pain: “At Pandora’s Box I was witnessing an individual choose to participate in what looked from the outside like a violent act. But it represented play in a controlled setting where the man could say, ‘Mercy, mistress’, and it stopped. Still, I found that challenging. And as with Carnival Strippers, it was the power relations that really captured my attention – women who wield a kind of power that is suspect to others.”