For the project Tokyo Hotel, Nathalie Daoust continues her exploration of the female form and sexuality. Spending several months in the Alpha Inn, Japan's largest S&M 'Love Hotel', Daoust photographed 39 dominatrixes in their private rooms. Daoust regards the Alpha Inn as a stage for human desire and S&M as the mere expression of a need to dream, fantasize and escape. The resulting images transform the darker, grittier factions of society into a narrative that is symptomatic of our time.... Carol O'Brienwww.1814mag.com