Exhibition · 2024

Touch Vienna & Touch Munich

14 February 2024 · Bewusst Sein Im Fokus, Vienna · 15 May 2024 · Spiritual Touch Tantra Institut, Munich · Everness, Siófok

In my own words

Touch has been under suspicion for far too long. In Vienna and Munich I photographed tantra massage as what I actually found it to be: warm, gold-toned, unhurried care for another human being.

This is where my black and white finally gave way. Candlelight, skin, that honeyed temperature — you cannot tell this story in monochrome. In cities where people go weeks without being touched by anyone, saying out loud that touch is care felt like the most useful thing photography could do that year.

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Works from the exhibition

Two bodies lie close together in low light, one hand resting on the other's skin.
Two hands meet, fingers overlapping, against a dark draped background.
Two figures entwined, one lying back with arms wrapped around the other.
A hand rests on a reclining body, soft light running along the skin.
Two people lie close, faces almost touching, one leaning over the other.
Overhead view of a person lying face down on a round rug while another leans over them.
A hand draws a slow line down a back, heavy curtains behind, light from the side.
A hand rests against a standing body; skin and shadow divide the frame.
Overhead frame of two people on a white sheet, limbs interlaced.
Close crop of two hands pressing into a shoulder and back.
Two hands rest flat and symmetrical on a torso, the frame almost mirrored.

© Norbert Bánhalmi / BANHALMI. All rights reserved. Images from the BANHALMI archive, 1999–2026.

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