What happened when one photographer went backstage at Paris Fashion Week armed with only a humble Nokia 2660. See the images here: 📸 by Chester McKee
show, a group of people just burst into laughter,” says McKee. “To be honest, I would have done too. It looked ridiculous.” Armed with a Nokia 2660, which is priced at a meagre £64.99, the tech-relic may have paled in comparison to the hefty lensed, megapixel-dense Nikons and Canons, but the Nokia had something other photographers didn’t have: “I was excited about the fact it had Snake on it.
The runways of recent times have been looking back to the Y2K era, with brands like Blumarine, Dsquared2 and Eckhaus Latta heralding a return to a time when clothing came skimpy, flirty and a little bit trashy. It was, of course, the time when paparazzi snaps of Paris Hilston and Lindsay Lohan partying with their blinged-out flip phones were a constant in the pages of every glossy magazine. The images captured by McKee’s Nokia’s 0.
Grainy and low-definition as the images are, this assuredly won’t be the end of McKee’s unconventional approach to backstage photography. “I might bring the flip phone back for round two. But if I’m feeling kooky, I’ll bring a Nintendo DS.”
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