LIVE NIRVANA PHOTO HISTORY July 15, 1993 - Seattle, WA, US
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I had reluctantly accepted to work with a magazine that I didn’t like (too commercial for my own taste) because it was to shoot Nirvana. I arrived very early morning in Seattle on the shoot day July 15, 1993. (Probably with the working team but I don’t recall, they might have arrived the day before). I was tired and fell asleep on the concrete floor of the photo studio. When the band arrived they found me there, asleep on the floor and wearing a sarong — I had been wearing sarongs since a 1992 trip in India, it was much more comfortable. They might have thought it was funny and that’s probably why they decided to dress like this for the shoot. Also, because of the commercial fashiony character of the magazine, the band most likely decided to take the piss out of it and to have fun. I don’t remember talking much, although I must have been playful cause they seemed to enjoy the shoot and vice versa. It was smooth and spontaneous, nothing was planned before we started to shoot. We just walked out of the studio and shot in the nearby street, then on that street corner because we loved the Republican street sign.John Scarisbrick who was helping me on that shoot might have a more vivid memory of the shoot and might be able to tell me more. I don’t know how long the shoot lasted. Maybe one or two hours max. I don’t even remember the rest of the team as it was not the usual people I used to work with. I really must have been stressed or super focused because I have a blurred memory of the surrounding events. Probably by noon we were done. The band and I didn’t connect more than what you see on the photos and we never got to work again together, therefore I always felt a bit disappointed that it was for a crap magazine that we met and that it ended up being a “fashion shoot” spoof. Although I like the funny result, I would have preferred to get to know them a bit deeper and capture more of their persona and their guts.
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