The National Live — Stage Lighting at Indoor Concert

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Two musicians hold the stage under a canopy of blue-purple beam lighting, the kind of rig that turns a ceiling into a sky. The radiating spotlights carve the darkness into geometry — precise, theatrical, a little oppressive in the best sense. Stage photography at this scale is essentially light sculpture: the performers are the anchor point the beams are organised around.