«Masquerade # 4 diane adidas, Paris, May 2003

This photo is part of a series started in 2000, available in the portfolio http://www.flickr.com/photos/yannickvigouroux/sets/72157594312381485/

«Life is tolerable only by the degree of mystification that there is.


Cioran, «Summary of decomposition, 1949.

Each portrait in the series «Masquerade» (still unfinished), is the result of the joint construction of a fantasy, fetish boots claimed is pivotal games of masks and mirrors devised by the female model.

One model says, having lived this experience:

«The Prince of Darkness, the Count Dracula, Hannibal Lecter, and other mythological horror movies since the silent film to film gore n have to watch out for the purpose of Luc Mallet their offers brides pirated ready to play a role in composition. To offer models exclusively female, to wear a mask and a pair of boots, give them the freedom to set their own scene inside, use a pseudonym, is the beginning of a lovely story.

The mask is the star of the interregnum, interchangeability, interface worlds, the representation of the forbidden, disorder, opposite the odre imposed. By showing the fears of a world that is crime, the exorcise the mask. It dramatisations values, revitalize their sense of simulacra and inversions. » (Samantha Barroero, taken from» The Masquerade in tabloid Yannick Vigouroux, June 2003).