Lucas Dragone is an award-winning photographer best known for his work on theatre and dance. His portraits and documentary projects follow the same approach. "Everything I photograph, I photograph as theatre," he says. "It is what I call the theatre of life."

He grew up backstage. A Balinese mask shown to him as a child was the beginning of a search that has taken him across Asia for almost twenty years.

Born in Belgium to Italian parents, he studied at LASSAAD International School of Theatre in Brussels, founded by Lassaâd Saïdi in the tradition of Jacques Lecoq, and began his career as a performer, director and teacher before turning to photography.

He is also the Artistic Director of Dragone, the company founded in 2000 by Franco Dragone. Its productions have been seen by more than a hundred million spectators and have brought together some of the world's leading artists.

He has directed music videos and documentaries, including Black Box, a study of his father's creative process during the development of The House of Dancing Water in Macau; I Made Djimat, a portrait of the Balinese Topeng master; and one on the workers' occupation of the Royal Boch factory in Belgium.

His photographs have been shown internationally, at the National Theatre in Brussels and the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi, as well as in Paris, Tokyo, Dubai, Florence and Hong Kong.