Lochai became interested in photography as a child, playing with
his photographer uncles cameras whenever he visited. He
used to make pinhole cameras as a grade school student & then
started making them with his students when he was an art
teacher.
He holds a
graphics degree with a minor in photography, and a masters in art
education. After three years of helping others
with their art he got the itch to shoot again and have been actively
pursing photography for the last two years.
He feels the best stories to tell come from the heart and everyone
has something hidden that is bursting to come out. He feels he
can touch something with each person who sees my work. For Lochai,
He sees the real people when he views true fetish images. The real
person comes out thru their alter ego.
“Since I am a lifestyle player, when I shoot I see fetish
from the inside & try to convey the emotions as well as the
visuals.”
He tied up his first "girlfriend" when he was six on
the school bus and from that moment on he knew he was "different".
He has been a student and educator of BDSM including but not limited
to age play, pony play, corporal, discipline, pain for pleasure
play as well as a Kinbaku artist (Japanese bondage) He considers
himself a top and some consider me their dominant.
Lochai
owns an online fetish community connected with my favourite fine
art fetish magazine, SECRET.
He has a gallery opening in New York at the Chrystie Street
Gallery
from September 7th to September 24th. The Chrystie Street Gallery
is located in Manhattan, Soho District vicinity, between Chinatown
and the Lower East Side.
He is also working on two book projects slated for print summer
2006.
Credits:
Lochai's rope
work, erotica, photography and essays have been published or shown
in Secret Magazine #26 & #27,
Secret Anthology 4, Prometheus
Magazine, Skin II, Equus
Eroticus and The Body Archive in NYC. He is the rope
artist for the Digital
Kinbaku project. . His photography
can
be found in the Senses @ Play gallery in Key west as well
as many
online fine art galleries and his own site Kirinawa.
