I had never experienced life inside a public sauna before and was intrigued by what I saw. I myself found this old russian tradition quite strange in our modern body conscious world. I had never seen photographs published in such a place and I wanted to tell its story. Initially,it was dif
>>ficult to convince the women that the photos wouldn't be used for pornographic purposes and even then, they would threw me out after only 15 minutes. It was therefore a struggle to keep myself motivated. But in those 15 minutes, I managed to capture an intimacy and fellowship amongst women in this slowly dying ritual.