neil curtis at the rainbow parade '99
june 1999

this year 100.000 people went to the viennese ring and celebrated the christopher street day, one of them was neil curtis, painted from head to toe in black. "it was a good way to try out how the blacksession could look like" he smiles and shakes around nervously with his little digital camera. "even when I don't work on a project—I can not be without my little cam" he explains. unfortunately the result didn't lead to "official" photos like on the year before, but at least this time neil curtis (and his also painted painting friend andreas) was photographed like never before.

"it was weird, most people didn't recognize me, even friends needed some time to realize it's me" he says. and in fact, it's strange what a little bit of black colour can make... see for yourself:

picture from neil curtis at the regenbogenparade 1999. the idea was to be completely painted and run around on the parade, just having fun. the person on the right side is model andreas, the "body" of "experimental sessions I & 2". neil curtis (and model andreas) at regenbogenparade 1999 800x600 pixel RGB / 134 kb