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Street Lights

Two recent pictures have me scratching my head, in a good way. David Klammer’s photo from Democratic Books’ #4, “A Bhopal Recollection“, and a small pic on the Aperture site from Gillian Laub’s “Testimony“.

Each is a street picture, though one’s a portrait, and the other’s more of a sports shot. Each has dynamic, fluxing elements mixed-up with the static constraints of big lighting equipment. (Am I right about this? Doesn’t the Laub pic look like it’s lit with far-off-camera strobe?) It looks like an interesting place to play - somewhere between DiCorcia’s “Heads”, and good ol’ available-light wide-angle street photography.

Not much to say other than more please, thank you.

…Ooh, to answer my own request, I just remembered that Klammer’s work was selected for a World Press Photo award. He made those memorable portraits of World Cup Fans with off-camera flash. (I can remember pictures, but I’m rusty on the names of people who took them…) And looking at those reminds me of Brian Finke’s sports work.

Gillian Laub, from “Testimony”