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The Glory

Images of 20 drag and performance artists, including Crystal from Rupaul's Drag Race, all shot behind a hot pink background.

From 2017 to its close, I worked with queer supervenue The Glory as their go-to photographer for their competitions Lipsync1000 and Man Up, as well as their yearly takeover of the National Theatre’s river stage. 

Despite deciding it was time for new energy after their Divine intervention, I still frequent the Divine and still love Woo, Sizzle, Jack and Mads to bits!

Lipsync1000

The Lipsync1000 final cast of 2023, celebrating on the Clapham Grand stage
2023 final
Drag king Dandy Darling helps their accompanying dancer get dressed. Both are dressed like praying mantises; Dandy in pink, their dancer in green.
Dandy Darling and dancer, 2023 final
Drag king Masc Peach poses with his girlfriend, Die Lemma, and friend, the PUF. All are eccentrically dressed. The photo is in black and white.
Die Lemma, Masc Peach and the PUF, 2023 final
Samuel Cox, a cabaret performer dressed as Indiana Jones, poses with his two backing dancers, Luspinda and Glimmer. Both girls have black bobs and stripy white-and-red bikinis.
Luspinda, Samuel Cox and Glimmer, 2023 final
Cabbage the Clown, in a shimmery silver dress, smiles at the top of a staircase. The photo is taken from the bottom.
Cabbage the Clown, 2023 final
Drag queens Jane Norman, Lua Ray and Frankie Fann all pose together. While Jane is more conservatively dressed in a little black dress, Lua is dressed as a pig in a black-and-white bedazzled swimsuit, and Frankie is wearing a red and black latex nun's habit.
Jane Norman, Lua Ray and Frankie Fann, 2023 final

National Theatre River Stage

The cast of the inaugural London production of A Strange Loop perform on stage
A Strange Loop, 2023
While Dr Adam Perchard performs on stage, audience members dance surrounded by bubbles
Bubbles, 2023
More audience members dancing, this time at night and with more abandon
Atmosphere, 2023
Drag queen Camile Leon, dressed as Eurovision winner Loreen, pretends to call her iPhone
Camile Leon, 2023
XO, a drag king in an electric wheelchair dressed as a 90s boyband member, dances on stage with Chiyo, a trans male drag king with his shirt off and dyed red hair
XO and Chiyo, 2023
A Black female hula hooper whose name I forgot does her routine, while Janet Platt DJs in the background
Hula hooper, 2023
Three drag queens: John Sizzle in red, Aaron Manhattan in black with a yellow wig, and Jonbers Blonde in green, perform on stage while DJ and rapper Gaff-E, in blue, walks by
Sizzle, Gaff-E, Aaron and Jonbers, 2023
John Sizzle, again in red Kylie Minogue in the Padam Padam video cosplay, rides a Santander "Boris" bike
John Sizzle as Kylie, 2023
Tom Rasmussen, a masc-presenting non-binary singer with larger figure and reddish-brown hair and beard, performs on stage.
Tom Rassmussen, 2023

More, including Man Up! and stuff from the archives, to come!

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