after several articles dedicated to the first session of several models, here is the one about the beginning of a long collaboration with Dana … she did more than 100 shootings for me and she brought a lot of things to Captive Culture. Dana was 25 years old when I met her around a cup of coffee : she was a nice woman having a break from her job, she wanted to explore her passion for acting and modeled only two times for a pin-up photographer. Dana was curious about my universe and quickly talked about her wish to be bound : like lot of girls of her generation, she was nicely kinky and attracted by the beauty of rope bondage.

We got a very nice contact and I knew we would do serious things together. Dana didn’t want to work for money only, she wanted to have fun and I guessed the bondage stuff would please her body & mind. After our meeting, I got my friend Michael on the phone and I told him Dana was looking great : I knew she would be perfect to reach a new step in the adventure, she had the good profile : slim body and nice face like most of my models but she had something more, she was open-minded and ready to work hard for the project. Dana was motivated and that’s an essential thing … of course, Dana wasn’t experienced but I was sure she would learn very fast.

I scheduled the first session at my photo studio : we finished it several weeks before and that was nice to welcome Dana in this new place. We started with something simple : a nice lingerie set and some bondage tape. After a while, Dana was bound : elbows in the back, knees and feet wrapped in a tight way. I wasn’t a good rigger enough to start with ropes … it was a good way to make her experience the feeling of restraint. Dana has never been bound before and I had to be careful if I wanted to keep this girl motivated. I quickly noticed Dana liked the situation and we did a lot of nice pics during this first photo series.

After this one, we did another set but I wasn’t satisfied about the result … it was too short, then, Dana came another day to shoot more with the same outfit and make-up. Finally, my members discovered Dana through a mix of 3 sets and they loved it. Dana quickly became popular and she was the star of Captive Culture for several years … we were in 2002, almost three years before I started to work with Mina & Anaïs. Nowadays, some people don’t know Dana very well because she arrived in the early years. Imagine the blog has been created after she stopped modeling … and that’s true we did a lot of average sessions because of my skills. But in my mind, Dana is still ranked high because she gave a lot, helping me to increase my ropes skills and lived a lot of unique moments. I never imagined this first photo series would be the beginning of a story full of memories : bondage, mummification, suspension, domination, spanking, ropes in the water, latex enclosure, slave training, vacuum bed … more than a model, Dana Carlier became my assistant and helped to train new girls who were happy to follow the way she opened. Dana has been the first professional for bondage modeling on the french scene : her work inspired lot of models who were not scary anymore about the things we love. As I often say, I started the Captive Culture adventure in a country where BDSM wasn’t popular at all, the sessions we did for three years helped to change the perception of this universe … so, thank you Dana !