The National Live at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Stage production at The National's Sleep Well Beast tour at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam. Diagonal white light beams rake across a towering LED backdrop while the band holds still in deep blue below — the machinery of the show dwarfing the people running it. The contrast is structural: the scale of the light design against the smallness of the silhouettes is where the image earns its tension.