i love your light

look look look look look! It’s a lesbian from next door! 

He saved money for a year to afford a professional camera and he never goes out without it.

Still, he would be able to make beautiful photos with a smartphone. 

He always takes photos during les Amis’ rallies and protests, and they are always iconic images, that perfectly show the reason they are fighting for.

Once, during a rally, he took a photo of Combeferre and Feuilly so beautiful that they printed it on every leaflet for at least a 8 months.

He prints his photos on his own in a darkroom. He knows many techniques to alter photographs “the old way”.  He can’t use photoshop or any other software to safe his life.

He printed a solarized portrait of Enjolras. It’s his masterpiece, he feels like crying every time he looks at it.

A photo he took of Jehan was chosen for an exhibition about gender and gender roles. 

He has a folder where he keeps photos taken by his favourite photographers, and he frequently leafs through them when he is bored.

The only time he really got angry with Enjolras was when he was looking at Mapplethorpe’s photos at the Musain and the leader asked him please not to bring pornography to the meetings. He gave him an icy stare and just left, leaving all les Amis speechless and Enjolras blinking, shocked by the reaction and already feeling guilty. 

“It’s just that of all people I would have never thought you would be the one to belittle his work! Some photos are willingly challenging, I can’t deny it, but he took subjects such as homosexuality, gender, interracial love and sex in general and made art out of them! Where society saw sin and horror he saw beauty! In the 80s, Enjolras, while the whole world was turning its face away to ignore that same illness that was killing him from the inside! I can’t believe you are the one who can’t see that he was a revolutionary genius!”

Of course, Enjolras apologized in every way he could and understood he had to learn something more about modern art.

When he’s in a good mood he takes photos of his friends, so that he can look at them when he’s feeling down. 

When he has really bad days, he takes photos of himself. “I’m still here. With all my flaws, my imperfections and my horrible attitude, but I’m still here.”

make me choose | @tinyfey said: trina or whizzer

“Every now and then… because I do see myself in mirrors on stage… As Christine, I’m “OMG, there’s Christi… no, that’s me…” “ (Ali Ewoldt)

Joey Barreiro (October 13th, 2015-October 2nd, 2016)