Christian Passuello’s Backstage series presents papier-mâché figures and animals found in workshops in Nice, South of France, where carnival figures were built. The remnants of carnival floats appear suspended between apparition and disappearance, creating a strange theatre where wonder, unease, abandonment and poetry meet. A documentary photographer and filmmaker for more than forty years, Passuello describes photography and documentary practice as a way of life, exploring themes including music, science, childhood, cannabis, identity, memory and imagination.