80 PAGES – more than 65 images –

Tom Hofmann is advertising photographer, graphic designer and visual artist. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria/Europe. His photography centers on the erotic, including fetish and bondage images.

Although experimental and conceptual images excite him, “everyday” themes are just as intriguing for him. He envisions his work as extracted frames from a movie, chosen to dramatize the intensity of the moment presented. His work is captured in a way that allows for single frames to stand alone and speak for themselves but also for combined frames to come together and bring a new perspective through the story being shown.

From the foreword by Georg Barkas (professional artist, educator, writer and researcher in the field of Japanese Rope Art):
… I wished to avoid a mere description of the pictures, and I do not want to tell the ‘reader’ what they will find in the book as this would rob them of the opportunity to form their own opinions. Furthermore, the collection of Tom’s photographic art is so diverse that it is hard to find the continuity which is so often demanded in various fields of art. At the same time, it is exactly this lack of continuity which makes it so interesting …