Also, I’d like to share an ✨๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐✨with Robin Franรงois in which he tells about his collaboration with the band, impressions on Brian’s style and meeting Robert Smith at the Placebo afterparty in Wembley.
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| Photo credit: Robin Franรงois |
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๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฒ๐ ๐๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐: Robin, thank you for your participation. Firstly, I would like to ask you about photo shoots with Brian Molko and Placebo. When and where did you meet for the first time?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: … I met Placebo so many times that I don't remember which one was exactly the first. Apparently, I got acquainted with them on Black Sessions, on France Inter radio where they were giving a promo-show in support of the release of their first album in summer of 1997.
๐๐: How many photo shoots do you have with Brian and the band?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: There were really a lot of photo shoots. But I should specify that it includes not only complete photo shoots at studio. I often took pictures of them on stage, backstage, in breaks between interviews, here, in France, and in London… It's too difficult to divide all this into certain categories.
๐๐: Can you remember the most remarkable moment of your collaboration with Placebo? What impressions do you have about your mutual work?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: One day during their show at Wembley, Robert Smith from The Cure joined them. It was pretty amusing to see them at the after party. They turned out to be good friends. I had taken several photos with them together and Brian kept them afterwards.
๐๐: What can you say about Brian's images for photo shoots? In your opinion, what was the most interesting?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: I think it will not be a revelation but the most interesting thing in work with Brian is his androgyny which creates a special, one of a kind person. His image became a symbol for ‘90s generation.
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| Photo credit: Robin Franรงois |
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: Unfortunately, since every smartphone is equipped with a high quality camera and everybody can post pictures in real time, live show photography became less popular among professional photographers. Anyway, at live shows a photographer serves as an onlooker imprinting what is happening on stage. Portrait shoots are a different story. Only in this context a real chemistry appears between a photographer and a model. Also there is an opportunity to instantly change set (light, decorations) and anticipate a final result. For me a portrait is in the first place reciprocation.
๐๐: Now the band is celebrating their Twenty's anniversary. What can you say about Brian and Stefan – now have they changed through the ages?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: In the beginning of their career lots of people thought that Placebo was a fashion phenomenon of that period. Nevertheless, they succeed to stay afloat and develop their talent in the long-term listening to emerging trends and, at the same time, keeping their authenticity.
๐๐: I saw on your website that you had taken photos of David Bowie as well. What do you think about Placebo collaboration with David Bowie?
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐̧๐จ๐ข๐ฌ: It was Brian's dream came true.
(๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก, 2017)
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| Photo credit: Robin Franรงois |
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Post by Olga
I’ve found an ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ with Brian, Stefan and Steve Hewitt from the very same time, March 2001, on NRJ LIVE Radio France. It seems it was also added as a CD to one of the issues of a French music magazine from 2001.
