With a title inspired by the name of the character in theacclaimed book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Sodapop is alove letter to French New Wave cinema. Also inspired byclassic Italian cinema, this story of culture on the fringesfeatures tales and portraits of the iconoclasts, rebels,punks, and romantics, all set in Downtown Manhattanand Brooklyn in the span of predominantly one summer.The glamorous and the rebellious, fishnets and cigarettes,improvised on New York City's streets, rooftops, hotels,and dive bars in raw, immediate form.Sam Marie-Saint's career in photography began whilestudying directing and cinematography at UCLA. Hisfirst inspirations were punk music, French New Wave andItalian cinema, particularly the films of Jean-Luc Godard,FranÇois Truffaut, Federico Fellini, and MichelangeloAntonioni; and the Weimar painters George Grosz, GustavWunderwald, and Otto Dix. Originally a landscape andstreet photographer, Marie-Saint turned to fashion andportraiture shortly after finishing his education, combiningthe elements of fashion, street, and landscape photographyinto a cinematic narrative that is present in all of his worktoday. After an experimental phase, he moved to Paris todevelop his look and portfolio before eventually moving toNew York City, where he now lives and works.