“The party is backstage” is a editorial series I modeled in that explores the backstage part of the city theater in Hengelo — The Netherlands.

It depicts two models ‘living’ glamorously backstage getting comfortable in this, for many, unseen world.

The photographer of the shoot, Jolanda Grutter, is known to me for her innovative way of seeing a story from another perspective. Instead of two models taking to the stage as the life of theater does, we explored the deep crevices of the building or the red velvet seat each visitors use. To me that is a reminder that there is just as much glamour in all life off the stage as on.

The concept intrigued me so much I immediately said yes when Jolanda asked me to join her project.

With the preemptive information that documentation is shot backstage of a theatre, to me the results come out as a surrealistic scene.

What happens in a empty theatre?