Food For Your Senses, our open-air music festival in Luxembourg is definitely a Summer highlight for the youth! Good vibes, nice creative corners, yummy food. We left early but didn't miss the golden hour, my favourite moment of the day. Enjoy my impressions x
Read MoreChasing music, mood an fashion elements. 🐱🤘
Rock-a-Field is one my favourite events in Luxembourg. I'm always excited to be here and document this Summer party. This year, I couldn't come on Saturday because of a wedding but on Sunday (yesterday), I gave 100%. I didn't know any of the bands that were playing so I was curious to discover new music and I left really satisfied. My favourite bands of the year have been...
Read MoreNuit des Lampions, a wonderful nocturnal experience organised in Wiltz, Luxembourg in the end of September, this time on Sunday 19th.
The fireworks, performances and the whole way through the park led by hundred of lanterns is as an unforgettable experience. There are so many things to discover.. musicians, dancers and poets, hola hoop dancers, a gin bar, a fortuneteller hidden in a tent, a photo exhibition.. The place is far away from Luxembourg city but so worthy to see. Loved catching the light in the darkness!
I'm addicted to fireworks, such a beautiful invention!
Dudelange On Wheels is an urban sport event held every Summer in Dudelange, Luxembourg. Several contests are organized (skateboard, streetboard, inlineskates, bmx..) during the whole weekend. Beside the sport - live music, food and drinks bring the youth together to celebrate a sporty, sunny moment. We came on Saturday and had a good time. I used to be an inlineskater for many years, spending every afternoon on the halfpipe with my skater friends. Kinda miss those fearless times. Enjoy the story. Yes, the ginger head is me trying to look like a skatergirl again. Kisses.
The streetboarders I shot: Sergi Nicolas, Bernat Pomerol, Gabriel Arguelles, Max Anderson, Gabi Munoz and Eduard Wojcik.
Rock-A-Field, the biggest open air festival of Luxembourg welcomes every year since 2002 thousands of music and Summer fans during the first weekend of July. It's the second time for me to document the festival as official photographer (here the previous edition). I was super excited and it was again, amazing. The shows were great - my favourite ones: Muse, Bastille, Rise Against, Kontra K, Marmozets, Echosmith and Go Go Berlin, Kate Tempest and Mutiny on the Bounty. A big thank you for the lovely crew for being so kind, cheeky, funny and helpful at the same time. Great organization, management and fun. Thumbs up! Enjoy my impressions made during 3 days of awesomeness.
Troc'n'Brol 2014 took place at Carré Rotondes in Luxembourg-City on Thursday the 18th of December. At the end of the year I use to participate to this artistic event. Several local artists expose their latest or oldest work and visitors are invited to barter art for something else than money. It can be an item, a service, a meal, an offered experience... When you're interested in a work, you grab a post-it, write down your offer and stick it on the wall. At the end of the event, the artist chooses the best proposal and the deal is done.
I exposed three big canvas of pictures I took during the Extrabold Circus party. I chose those three ones because they're blurred. This accidental haziness of the clowns makes me think of an illusion, hallucination or a horror movie and that's why I love this trio. It's a form of storytelling, everyone can imagine his own story behind those pictures..
People at the exhibition asked me about the canvas.. Well, I ordered them at Photo Service in Luxembourg-City. The next day they were ready, so super fast work! I need this kind of service as I'm a very last minute person. It may be more expensive than online shops but you have several facilities compared with online systems. If you're not happy with the result, they reprint immediately so you don't need to send it back somewhere and wait a week or more to receive the corrected version. The quality of the canvas is great. It's the first time I print photos on canvas and I love it. The price is about 100€ for a big format.
Here are my DIY (do it yourself) take-away business cards decorated with Christmas stickers and affixed with masking tape! I always enjoy making little souvenirs for visitors.. :)
My twin sister Xenia exposed drawings in a magical, fairytale-like style. It was the first time she participated to this event and she was quiet successful! I love the way she decorated her area!!
The event was very nice. Several friends came over to say hi. I love photographing them while they're exploring art, such serious expressions...xD Many post-its were gone, arrangements settled and lots of meetings and conversations filled the room. The best offer I got for one of my canvas is day in a spa, can't wait for it. More pictures will be published on the Troc'n'Brol facebook page.
19th Of November. Lady Panoplie - a ladies night at the Vins Fins wine bar in the Grund, Luxembourg City. This small bar is interesting because of their organic and biodynamic wine selection. It's quiet small inside but very cozy at the same time due to the decoration and weak lightening. The bar welcomed us with a drink and finger food. You could sit down and let a hairdresser offer you a creative bun hairstyle or check out a some second hand clothes and accessories.. I'm glad I discovered the place through this event. The goodie bag we received at the end was filled with...advertising. Aaargh! Anyway, looking forward to more of such ladies nights...
Nuit Des Lampions 20/09/14 - a big Chinese lantern party in Wiltz, the north of Luxembourg. We felt like entering the dream of Alice in Wonderland. There were small places to relax hidden behind exposed hedges.. People were enjoying music, wine and loudly declaimed poems in a mysterious atmosphere. During your walk through the lights, you came across a hula hoop performer, dreamers relaxing on beds or big bees covering a passage..
One of my favourite local events - the Butschebuerg medieval festival in Dudelange (Luxembourg). The party takes place a whole weekend in the middle of September and merchants, artists, manufacturers from the neighbour countries come together to celebrate the Middle Ages with it's enthusiasts. What I absolutely appreciate is that so many visitors come appropriately disguised! The place is full of entertainment for kids and adults. There's even a wooden carousel ! You can find beautiful handmade jewellery, wooden toys, knitted slippers as well as handcrafted tableware or drink some honey wine out of old school clay mugs, eat apple rings and listen to live medieval music.. I was glad I was invited to document this yearly party.
My last festival of this Summer was Wacken. I go to Wacken every year since 2009. The biggest heavy metal festival in the world is my personal highlight, it's my second home I'd say. The ambiance is peaceful even if you see thousands of people dressed in black. The music is great - Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Steel Panther, Skid Row, Children of Bodom, Apocalyptica were the bands I enjoyed the most playing on stage.
But it's not only about music, the whole structure, organization of the festival is awesome. You have this huge Wackinger Village - the medieval part of Wacken. The decoration here is conceived into the smallest details. You feel like entering the Middle Ages. You can play old school games like tug-of-wars or shoot with bow and arrows, dance, fight, smoke shisha, drink mint tea or enjoy Wacken blood with an XXL spit. I spend a lot of time here.
I've never seen a bigger food variety in one place - from standard food like Pizza or noodles to fish & chips, garlic bread, vegan plates, pork roast, duck, etc - you find everything ! Instead of a bar, there are big wooden ships where you can order Mead (Met, honey wine) or Wacken Blood (berry wine). The camping place is great because your car is standing in front of your tent so you don't need to walk for ages when arriving with your whole stuff on the back. Well everything is awesome here, Wacken makes a great job to satisfy over 80.000 metal heads.
This last weekend of July I exhibited with some several artists at another open air festival in Luxembourg (Bissen). FFYS offered a big variety of less famous bands but also some internationally well-known headliners like Milky Chance. But if you weren't into music the whole day, you had this artisitic option: the Sensibition. I really loved that corner where you had wooden lounges surrounded of minth and rosemary hedges, a small open tent with funny poets, clowns or magicians, a cute ta-ta-rhum hut where non-mainstream cocktails were maid and the exhibition itself. This corner looked like a fairy tale, like we just had walked into the secret garden of the witch in "Hansel & Gretel". Personally, I preferred this Sensibition corner to the music stages, because it's something unusual, something I've never seen before at a local festival.
My Summer started as official photographer at the biggest Luxembourgish open air festival - Rock-a-Field (Roeser, Luxembourg). It was such a great experience to stand on stage next to Jared Leto and Skrillex or talk to Triggerfinger in the backstage. I really loved the choice of the bands and the organization of the whole thing - very professionally and carefully organized weekend. You saw how much it was important for the (absolute lovely) crew to make everyone happy involved in the RAF. I never had so much fun while hunting the perfect moment during a festival.
On stage we had among others Ellie Goulding, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Hives, Kings Of Leon, Skrillex, Alice in Chains, Foster The People, Triggerfinger and Wiz Khalifa.
