A staged photographic series after Boris Vian’s 1947 novel L'Ecume des Jours. In the novel, Chloé’s illness slowly darkens and shrinks the world around her. I focused on that decay and on Vian’s love of jazz and Black America culture.

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.” - Boris Vian

Actors: Peter Y. Kwei & Tamara Trye

Lighting: Benjamin Whitley

MUA: Grace Sinnott

Logistics: Julia Gazin & Luke Baxter

Location: The Roost E8