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Behind the Velvet Rope
Behind the Velvet Rope
June 25, 2025
Landon Nordeman, Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Hollywood, 2019
Shot over the course of a decade, Landon Nordeman’s series Last Night offers an instinctive, flash-lit look at the rituals of social performance in the exclusive world of high-society parties. With a visual language that combines bold colours, theatrical framing and surreal timing, Nordeman captures the strangeness, humour and spectacle that unfolds when socialites and superstars gather to celebrate the most beautiful things in the world… themselves!
Working up close and among his protagonists, Nordeman uses his camera and flash to capture these well-practiced interactions – creating unexpected images that simultaneously stylise and humanise those he portrays. Amidst the seductive interplay between fashion and physicality, shadow and colour, he discovers honest moments within the artifice. Last Night is both a record and a reflection of a world on the verge. Of what, we don’t yet know. Collapse? Transcendence? Nordeman’s images pose the question: are we distracting ourselves while the world is burning, or laughing in the face of oblivion? And is there really a difference?
For further information please visit Leica Gallery New York.
Katrin UllmannWorking up close and among his protagonists, Nordeman uses his camera and flash to capture these well-practiced interactions – creating unexpected images that simultaneously stylise and humanise those he portrays. Amidst the seductive interplay between fashion and physicality, shadow and colour, he discovers honest moments within the artifice. Last Night is both a record and a reflection of a world on the verge. Of what, we don’t yet know. Collapse? Transcendence? Nordeman’s images pose the question: are we distracting ourselves while the world is burning, or laughing in the face of oblivion? And is there really a difference?
For further information please visit Leica Gallery New York.
Landon Nordeman, Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Hollywood, 2019
Landon Nordeman, Pre-Golden Globes Party, Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, 2016
Landon Nordeman, Studio 54 Themed Party, New York City, 2019
Landon Nordeman, Met Gala, New York City, 2024
Landon Nordeman, Amanda Lapore, NYFW Party, New York, 2025
Landon Nordeman, Fundraising Gala, Palm Beach, 2025