Last night I got to shoot Coco’s burlesque show “Coco’s Vanity Vixens” at Highline Ballroom for the Village Voice. I even shot the red carpet which I rarely do because photos of celebrities in front of advertisements that 15 other photographers have is not exactly exciting, but you gotta do the work sometimes…  The show itself was a well conceived burlesque performance featuring some decent dancers that didn’t get very naked. Maybe I am spoiled by crazy NYC burlesque where people get fully naked and pull egg rolls out of their vaginas but the show was pretty tame. Coco herself killed it and she did end up topless at the end which truthfully I was not expecting. She is pretty amazing to watch out there, especially set against a bunch of skinny girls. I have no idea how her butt exists but it is awesome.

I had fun at the show and my only real complaint was that it was horribly lit and made for awful photos. I mean it looked pretty good live but when you light people and the stage with the same color red it’s pretty impossible to photograph which is really all I care about. If I can’t take a photo of it, it might as well not exist.

Anyway, I have a ton of shit to do today and you guys have mediocre photos of mine to look at so let’s get it on!

Click here to see all my photos from Coco’s Vanity Vixens at the Highline Ballroom!

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