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Last month I was commissioned by Silkwinds, SilkAir's inflight magazine, to shoot behind-the-scenes photography at Resorts World Sentosa's Voyage de la Vie theatrical circus.
It was a great brief and I thoroughly enjoyed going behind the curtain to visually document the cast and crew as they prepared for an evening performance. I was able to tour the belly of the theatre at Resorts World Sentosa, which was custom-built for Voyage de la Vie, and get exclusive backstage peaks inside the hair and make-up studios and dressing rooms as the actors, dancers, singers, stylists and stage managers hustled to get ready for the show.
In full costume, and just moments before the performers were to appear on stage, I had a brief window of opportunity to make some portraits of a handful of the production's lead characters. I found a small corner of a dressing room where a piece of black cloth hung and set-up a quick and dirty portrait studio, consisting of a single softbox main light (powered by my Hensel 1,200w porty kit) and a Nikon SB-800 speedlight (synched off-camera) for fill light. These are the results.
A series of black & white photo reportage that I captured backstage during the show's preparations will appear in the March/April 2010 issue of Silkwinds.
See more of my portraiture and fashion photography here.
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