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been able to stop the pain I felt that nyght Francois: Understand?
years earlier when I saw the gray strand in Falcon: “You won’t cry for my absence,
my wife's hair. I know; You forgot me long ago; Am I that un-
Francois: Did you come to understand the important? Am I so insignificant? Isn’t some-
pain that nyght? Is that why you survived? thing missing? Isn’t someone missing me?”
Falcon: No. Francois: Evanescence. How does this re-
Francois: But you are still here. late to your understanding?
Falcon: Yes. What I learned that nyght Falcon: Most women carry immense sad-
was that I can’t stop the pain. I can create ness. Imagine being measured against Bar-
or I can die. I can be so bie all your life. Imagine
in the moment that I can knowing that your beau-
experience the dying of a ty is destined to fade and
flower despite the power that cultural prejudice will
of its beauty... cause you to feel valueless.
Francois: If I may in- No matter what a woman
terrupt, then this is why looks like, when she is in
I perceive such a deep front of my camera, I am
sense of sadness in your there for her and with her.
work—even in the beau- In the moment. She will
ty that so often leaves me never be so beautiful as
speechless. she is in that moment. It
Falcon: Yes. is all that matters, all that
Francois: So, this is counts. Regardless of my
the “source” of the dark- preferences, I see and feel
ness. This is where the only her beauty. Accept-
pain comes from. This is ing her as beautiful frees
what makes your work— her to be in the moment
the work of The House of with me and to let go of
NyghtFalcon—Gothic. all the emotion she carries
Falcon: Yes. within her. All the pain. All the sadness. I in-
Francois: Is this what shapes your images vite her—as I invite everything I photograph,
of women? Is this why they seem so sad in even a lifeless industrial pump—to be in the
many of your photographs? moment with me.
Falcon: Yes. But understand, I don’t ask a Francois: Is this what it’s all about? The
model to feel sad. As a rule, I don’t ask them roots of the darkness you carry with you?
to feel any one emotion. Falcon: Yes.
Francois: Then, what do you tell them? Francois: I am not sure where we go from
Falcon: I simply ask them to show me what here—this isn’t what I expected . . .
they are feeling. Falcon: Then for the moment, let it be.
Francois: Why do they show you? Why do
they trust you? ba
Falcon: Because I understand.

nyghtvision magazine RETUEN TO CONTENTS volume 3, number 1, WINTER 2013