Author: andyburu
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Lonely, Alone or together
No fucking charity. No one will be paired up out of obligation, pressure, or pity. I will not force you to pair up, nor will I help you to pair up.
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Selling photography prints
I’ve been working on integrating a store on my website to sell photography prints. It took time to decide what to sell, as I have thousands of intimate pictures exploring sadomasochism and eros.
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Who is Andy 2026?
For 2026, I’m shifting focus toward rituals, power dynamics, and obedience in workshops. I’m also writing a love story that explores power dynamics, with a new showreel and book on the way.
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Playlist of the year 2025
This year holier than you presents Clyde Otis, Swans, Víkingur Ólafsson, Zaho de Sagazan & Lil Peep, Kali Malone, Björk & Arca, Quelza, Kangding Ray & Tzusing, Nils Frahm, Ella Elvida, Radio Supernova and Charles Aznavour
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The Intimate Life of Andy in 2025
One of the questions I get asked most often is: How do you manage intimacy, friendships, lovers, and private life when your professional life looks the way it does?
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Agenda 2026: April to July
Since people keep asking here is my teaching agenda for April to July next year. Tickets sales will be available before end of the year.
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fetishization of passivity — a workshop
The fetishization of passivity takes many shapes. When nothing is required of us, and there is nothing we can do. No performance — nothing to achieve — zero fucks to give.
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Wearing The Leader Hat And Pressing The Stop Button
Submissives grab hold of the leader hat when given the task of pleasing via an elaborate ritual of service Or when being a naughty brat looking for ‘punishment’.
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Building Blocks for Playing Safer
I am dedicated to a paradoxical way of sadomasochism. Playing safer rather than safe. Make space for bravery, insecurity, and mystery. It can never be more than safer.
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Another muse on collective suffering
These love letters to my work is a big reason why I keep going. This time by Buzia / @nasty____organic on Instagram. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Thank you for collectively suffering with me at Xplore Berlin 2025
One hundred twenty people kneel in a circle, balancing discarded objects on their bodies—a ceremony of collective suffering. In choosing to endure, they find strength, connection, and meaning beyond isolation. Together, they transform pain into shared resilience, embodying vulnerability, choice, and the beauty found in conscious suffering.
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Anatomy of a Yes and No
Even WITH dozens of ways, The trickiest question is to know when to say ‘no’. ONE WAY IS recognising how it feels to near the borders of my window of tolerance.