Via Dazed Digital
Photography Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki – Text Anastasiia Fedorova
In 1993, photographer Ilana Rose first walked into Hellfire, Melbourne’s fetish nightclub, and was immediately mesmerized by the crowd. “We got in and everyone was totally dressed – that’s the first thing we noticed. It was just the most amazing take on S&M fashion, so heaps of plastic, vinyl, lots of leather and studs, and everyone strutting their stuff. The music was pumping and everything was great,” she remembers.
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Hellfire first opened in 1992 and was a fixture of Melbourne’s 90s nightlife every single Sunday night for ten years. It was a space of sexual liberation and experimentation which attracted party-goers, fetishists, and kinksters alike. Rose documented all of them on the dancefloor and during erotic play – a unique insight into Australia’s sexual underground which existed on the verge of fetishism and club subcultures.
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