“The Self –Destructive Spring of a Samurai”

Editorial Title: “The Self –Destructive Spring of a Samurai”

Concept: Pericles Kondylatos

Photos: Venthesikimi Soukoulis

Director: Demitri Delinikolas

Styling: Pericles Kondylatos

Models provided & arranged by Dimitrios Constantine Makris

Models: Vaso Jasmine, Ina Lasko &  Apostolos Georgiadis

Hair & Make –up: “Freddy Make- up Stage” by Fredy Kalobratsos

Make-up: Amanda Veléntza / Hair: Christina Aleksiou

Garments: Everything by Stelios Koudounaris & all colored coats & fabrics by Vassilis Zoulias vintage personal collection

Jewellery; “The Glass Menagerie” collection by Pericles Kondylatos

Shoes: Stelios Koudounaris

Special thanks: Platon Papagiannopoulos

Location scouting: Demitri Delinikolas, Anna Lou Archontidou

Concept:

Inspired by car crashes & disasters. The theme was inspired by Symphorophilia, a psychological condition under which the individual finds sexual satisfaction in car crashes & accidents.

SYMPHOROPHILIA

Symphorophilia is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal hinges on staging and watching a disaster, such as a fire or a traffic accident.

The term was coined by John Money in his 1984 paper Paraphilias: Phenomenology and classification, formed from the Greek root "συμφορά" ("symphora"):[1]

A special form of sacrificial paraphilia, for which a suitable name is symphorophilia (being erotically turned on by accidents or catastrophes), culminates in an arranged disaster, such as an automobile crash. Like a game of Russian roulette, it may end in death — alone or with the partner. However, flirting with disaster, rather than suicide and murder is the trigger responsible for autoerotic arousal and excitement. Being the daredevil who will live to risk a love-death again is an essential part of this paraphilia.

As a photographic print is the positive made from its negative, so also the positive of self-crashing is arranging for a disaster to occur on the highway, and then watching the carnage from a preselected observation post. Disasters other than on the highway may be arranged — catastrophic fires, for example. For those members of the general public who have a touch of sadomasochism in them, disaster as an unrehearsed event is often a large part of the appeal of entertainment stunts and sports, from the circus to stock-car racing.