CREATURES OF LIGHT

CREATURES OF LIGHT
A series of artistic portraits created during the 90s with Jonathan Bernard who was a fashion designer and Mathieu de Mayer who is a makeup artist. The 3 of us with the help of some friends Sergio, Benoit, Sebastien, Camel and so many more who modelled for the occasion, we a created a series of creatures that would walk in the night. From club to club all over Europe.
Each time we went out and arrived at any club it was a spectacle. Everything stoped and the focus was on the creatures. it was fascinating. People were enchanted, they smile and we provoke a huge impact. We were no longer just the " Drags" or the queer, we became a whole new sensation, a new phenomenal event. Some called it the night creatures. and there the name. We started this night fashion movement that marked the club culture's fashion of the end of the 90's that inspired generations of fashion designers to come.
Latex, beads, feathers, vinyl... Jonathan used every material that inspired us to create our creatures. and after the photo-shoot at my studio I used cross-processing to increase the contrast, the grain and the effects.
We made flyers for clubs, posters, created events, animated fashion shows, steet parades, we even dressed Manneken pis, made installations of creatures for movie festivals. unfortunately most of all that material is lost.
Sadly one of my negative boxes with some of the most famous images was lost due to a fire. That day I lost my best friend, he couldn’t get out in time. Jonathan lost his life during that night taking with him our creature's gear and some of our artwork, my negatives that he was storing with other materials were lost in that fire. Now Mathieu and I are trying to recover anything that is still out there.
Some of my negative boxes were stored other friend's places so those are the ones that I will share with you in this gallery in memory of Jonathan Bernard