Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Live — Green Beam Lighting, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

Stage lighting does most of the work here. A grid of white beam lights cuts down through the dark, and a wash of green holds the entire stage in a single colour — the band small and almost incidental at the centre of it all. The crowd fills the floor as a single mass, silhouetted against the lit stage. Concert photography at this scale is really light photography; the performers are the occasion, but the beams are the picture.