Maureen Gallagher—the model in Peter Beard's famous 'Night Feeder' photo—recalls their turbulent, star-crossed romance.
through my friend Grace Jones at a club in Manhattan called Heartbreak in 1987. Grace said, “Daarrling, youNew York nightlife was like an amusement park back then. I was 22 and had no idea who Peter was or what kind of ride I was about to get on. He asked me, in a voice that sounded both righteous and almost obnoxious, if I wanted to come to Africa. I said, “Yeah, right,” and disappeared into a bathroom.
On what turned out to be my last night at Hog Ranch, at about 2:30 in the morning, we’d been planning a nude photo with giraffes—but they hadn’t come around to eat for a while and we thought we’d lost the chance to shoot the image that becameSitting by the campfire, waiting to go to the airport and leave Kenya, I had a very heavy heart. Then, when the giraffe walked into camp, Peter calmly said, “This is it, folks. Maureen, get ready.” My heart went from melancholy to beating out of my chest.
After the shoot, nothing excited me more than nude night shoots in public places with Peter. In Paris, between shoots, we camped out like hippies in five-star hotels, Peter writing in his diary with all the artwork involved in such a thing spread out over the suite and blue ink all over his fingers and clothes. My code name was Olympia—it’s all over the diaries, because we were always together.
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