A friend of mine had invited me to go see him perform, but this was not without alterier motive. He had wanted me to take photos documenting his performance. I had not done concert/ live performance photography before this and had no idea what I was going to do. Finally, it dawned on me to document this in a way in which someone could get a sense of what it was like to be there at the show.
Webster hall on this night was pretty empty so feeding off of crowd energy was not an option. There seemed to be more going on at the bar than in the audience, but nonetheless the performances were still pretty stellar; they possesssed a great deal of expression. This kind of expression and passion they were displaying is something i tried hard at capturing. Whether or not I was successful in doing so remains to be decided.
The passivity of the crowd meant I had to focus a lot on what was going on stage and because I was not granted stage access, I worked hard to atleast capture something meaningful from the audience’s perspective. These are the results.
