A queer Filipino-Montrealer born in Côte-des-Neiges, Lazer Cobra (who prefers to go by their IG handle for this piece) started out shooting corporate events and weddings before the pandemic pushed them towards nightlife: "I just started hearing so many rumours of all these parties popping up in the underground scene," they remember.
"Random locations on the mountain, off island, by the river. I knew I had to go out there and take photos of this because no one else was. This was history in the making.”
Since then, Lazer Cobra’s become an exceptionally plugged-in nightlife photographer. Named after the cheap laser beams that decorate underground raves and a throwaway reference to the movie Dodgeball, their socials serve as a record of years spent with a part of a city so defining to its character that it never stopped moving—even when it was supposed to.
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