Sina Manetsch

I worked as a photographer in a professional studio environment producing high-end visual content for the luxury brand H. Moser & Cie. Contributed to the development and execution of creative concepts for social media and digital marketing campaigns, with a focus on still life photography, watch imagery. Participated in the production process from concept development to final visuals, helping translate brand identity into refined imagery optimized for social media and marketing platforms.

Collaborated with a creative production team to develop an image film for a natural honey-based skincare oil. Supported art direction, model coordination, and behind-the-scenes photography, helping shape a sensual visual concept highlighting the product’s natural ingredients and texture. Produced visual assets for brand storytelling and marketing use.

This project is about capturing a process that many women recognise, yet rarely see clearly reflected: It traces the slow entanglement in a sexual dynamic that starts with a ‘no’, moves on to confusion, and culminates in a spoken ‘yes’ that never truly translates into consent.
Visually, the work centres on the woman as a doll: polished, desirable and controllable. She is adorned and idealised. She receives flowers, attention and presence, until care subtly turns into expectation and desire into obligation. The unspoken question emerges: do I owe you something?

What follows is not violence, but a slow undermining of consent. A ‘no’ is spoken, then overridden. A ‘yes’ is given to end tension rather than to express desire. The realisation comes later. Because a ‘yes’ was voiced, the experience becomes difficult to name. What remains are sadness, isolation and self-blame.

The final phase is frustration and repressed anger. These feelings are turned inward and expressed through silence, tears and withdrawal. This project seeks to reveal these grey areas, the emotional aftermath and the quiet cost of consent that was never truly given.