The magazine of the photo-essay
Jan 2020 back issue
Behind the Scenes
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Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Transvestites, girls bathing in tubs of beer, drunk actors and even more drunk visitors. All of this at a club, the club where
I’m working. Over a year ago now, I came to Asia to work as a dancer. For the last few months we have performed at a
Chinese club, which is more like a huge bar with a stage. And that’s how the series “Behind the scenes” appeared.
This is the reverse, the invisible side of the club, the atmosphere, a part of which I became. Behind the scenes, there is
more burlesque than on the stage. The concentration of sexual fluids is more powerful than oxygen. There’s no falsehood –
it’s not a scene, it’s my everyday life.
by Sergey Melnitchenko
