The Importance of Breathing

Jay Parini: I'm sensitive to good photography and bad photography. One of my big things is breathing, getting the performers breathing where they forget the cameras are there. There's actually a technique that was taught for orgasmic birthing in the Black Sea by a woman named Elena Tenetti. She created this breath technique based on facial expression and mashing up the face all crazy because then the brain doesn't know what emotion or neurochemistry is prevalent. It takes you right into the primal.