Palorazzi
Check out the array of new shots on Meerkat’s
longtime associate Lorenzo di Flaneur’s flickr page. Lorenzo is the nom de photo of a fellow who’s
worked in the indie film scene and camped out at some cool bars and music
venues around the world for the last decade plus, leading me to define his job
description at one point as “attending every important cocktail party in the
world.” He got friendly with a lot of
cool cats along the way and snapped pictures all the time. I’m hereby coining
the term ‘Palorazzi’ in reference to Lorenzo, which I define as the taking of
photos of celebrated and talented people but from the perspective of a fellow party-goer
than a sweaty shouting man on the other side of the velvet rope. Lest this be
confused with something fabricated like the patent unreality of reality TV,
homeboy really is pally with a lot of these folks, and as a professional
partygoer with an iconic photographer’s eye, you’ll often feel as though you
were living his very rock and roll, very glamorous life, too. And he doesn’t discriminate on the basis
of fame--to him the go-go boy at Eastern Bloc can be as fascinating as the Oscar
nominee (has anyone else noticed the tattoos on Helen Mirren’s hands-very
visible as she poses with all the awards she’s picking up lately? Could she get
any cooler?). I’m so completely into his vision and am making it a project to
promote his work—I’d so much rather see shots of these folk in their natural
habitat, drinks in hand, than standing and posing for a bunch of soulless photographers in the employ of Bonnie Fuller. Check out his take on Helen, Parker
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