Jeff Buckley photographed by Merri Cyr, December 1995

“Jeff doing interviews…about four or five hours worth. We are at a hotel conference room in Orlando Florida where they bring in a portable bed for Jeff to lie on while he does his interviews. He’s been up all night.”  Merri Cyr

Jeff Buckley (via wasjaimelannister)

Inside Jeff Buckley’s “definitive” lost sessions.

“Jeff allowed me to photograph him in an uncensored way: while he was playing, being interviewed, at dinner, at rest - everything. He wanted people to see his authentic self as opposed to a rock icon. I photographed him when he was angry, tired, pissed off - most of the time people don’t allow you to see those aspects of themselves, especially when they are in the process of being mythologized.  I think he liked how I saw him through the camera - which hopefully was with empathy. He was very beautiful, but I think Jeff’s beauty wasn’t about his body, but his ephemeral brilliance. He was very inspiring, as an artist you wanted to be as good as he was.”  -Merri Cyr

Jeff Buckley, recording Grace at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York 1993. Photograph by Merri Cyr

Jeff Buckley at Tower Records on December 16, 1994, 21 years ago today, in New York City. Photographs by Merri Cyr.

Paul McCartney & John Lennon. I love how banged up their instruments are. 

Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones 1965, Fort Harrison Hotel, Clearwater FL

jeune et jolie (2013)

jeune et jolie (2013)

Jeune et jolie (Young and Beautiful). François Ozon. 2013. France.