Stephan Lupino has led several lives. First he was a world champion in karate. Then he discovered photography in New York in the 1980s with Deborah Turbeville.His heyday was the nightclub The Area, which came after Studio 54, where the parties were even wilder. Stephan set up his studio in the women’s bathroom, a madhouse where all sorts of illegal things were going on. Of Croatian origin, when civil war broke out between Serbia and Croatia, he joined the Croatian army and rose to the rank of officer before being wounded. Now he’s a national treasure: one third painter, one third sculptor, one third photographer—but as flamboyant as ever.
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