When Cirque du Soleil decided to open IRIS (Cirque’s first permanent show in Hollywood, CA) they called upon blkXsgr photographer Matt Beard to help create some of the photographs to support the iconic artwork for the show launch. The photos were used for Key Art, Advertising, Billboards, Magazines, the CDS website, the show Program Guide, Merchandising, as well as the IRIS album artwork for one of Matt’s all-time favorite musicians…Danny Elfman.

Matt also contracted and worked with several associate photographers to capture various angles during the live performance (for the Program Guide), including Errisson Lawrence, Piper Ferguson, Ryan Hackett, and Lenny Schway.