Consultant and coordinator for a nightlife that defines underground Parisian cool, Chi Chi Menendez isn't just on the guest list, she wrote the guest list. Documenting years of parties with Le Baron and friends, Menendez carved down her archive of over 200,000 photos for her first exhibition of a series of images titled, "Strange is the Night, Dark is the Morning." The collection of black and white prints capture blink-and-you'll-miss-them moments between friends and offers a stillness to the chaos of a really good party. "I am a natural voyeur of the madness, I see people at their best and worst," Menendez explains. "Sometimes there is beauty in debauchery."

The photos, part of a group show called "GBGH—Go Big or Go Home," with artists Tom Scicluna and Dan Walker, opened during Art Basel Miami Beach, the backdrop of Menendez's favorite photo, A Night Out with Gelitin. "It was taken in Basel two years ago and I love [the Austrian collective], they turned up in the most deliberate ugliest drag and the moment is quite funny." Humor naturally infuses itself into Menendez's photography with more than one fuzzy animal ensemble featured and a mid-scream/laugh Andre Saraiva in the boys' room. "I wanted to keep as much truth in my images as possible, so no posing or constructing, no reframing or Photoshop— shot off the hip really, just a candid look at what was happening. I was really just photographing my everyday life," Menendez insists. Which, from the looks of it, seems pretty damn fabulous.