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Lucas Dragone is an award-winning photographer whose roots in performance art and theatre profoundly shape his visual storytelling. A graduate of the Lassaad International School of Theatre in Brussels, he now documents traditional and contemporary theatre forms across Asia and beyond, using his lens to preserve cultural transmission and evoke the poetry of presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucas Dragone Q1<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m Lucas Dragone. I was born in the wings of theatres and raised among shadows and spotlights. Photography, for me, is not just capturing light, but translating silence into poetry. What began as a way to preserve fleeting moments has become a ritual of presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This series is part of a long-term project titled Documenting Performing Arts. More than a search for the exotic, it is a humble contribution to the preservation of a vanishing diversity, a way to bear witness to the sacred fragility of human expression before it fades into silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning this award casts light not on me, but on the artists and the ancestral way of making theatre, a tradition shaped by time, ritual, and silence. It matters deeply, not for prestige, but because the next generation deserves to inherit the echoes of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauty is only the doorway; it draws the eye, but it is the story that touches the soul. Without meaning, beauty fades. Art must speak, carry a message, and leave behind a trace deeper than appearance, a story that lingers, that questions, that connects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The camera, like photography itself, is merely a tool; it could have been a pen or a brush. What truly matters is not the medium, but the story one chooses to tell and the message one dares to offer the world. I chose the camera because its rhythm aligns with mine, it allows me to speak in silence, to write with light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m drawn to documentary photography because it does more than capture an image; it tells a story, reveals a truth, and offers a vision of the world as it is. Each frame becomes a fragment of our shared reality, a testimony of time, a mirror of humanity. It\u2019s not just photography; it\u2019s a way of bearing witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q3<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Leica M, fully manual with a fixed 35mm lens, offers me a paradox I cherish, limitation as liberation. Its constraints don\u2019t confine creativity; they give it shape, like a poem bound by meter. In its discipline, I find clarity, a frame through which intuition can speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope they come away having learned something not just about art, but about humanity. I want them to discover a hidden corner of the human story they hadn\u2019t seen before. Through theatre, through the breath of live performance, we don\u2019t just entertain, we reveal. We hold up a mirror where society can glimpse itself, and in that reflection, perhaps understand a little more of what it means to be human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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