Front Row

The front row of a festival, photographed from the stage with a flash and a wide lens. Nobody is looking at the camera because nobody knew it was there; they were looking at the band.

From the stage

Three songs, then out. The frame is the faces, the phones and the one person in the middle who saw me.

A crowd photographed from the front is an audience. Photographed from the back it is a crowd. The band wanted the audience, and so did I.

Flash on the camera, which every photographer will tell you never to do, and which is the only way to light a hundred faces at once from three metres. Rules are for the second song.