Photos: A Place to Bury Strangers @ Death By Audio on 8/19/10

3 Comments 21 August 2010

Photography and Words by Carlos Detres

Sophie’s choice

That’s how I felt selecting these pictures — should I go with movement, action, and mayhem? Or should I go with cookie cutter pictures of a band, whose sound deserves more than concert portraiture. There’s the right way of doing things and then there’s our (The Whiskey Dregs) way of doing things. I guess maybe it wasn’t Sophie’s choice after all. When you’re getting smashed between the stage, girls fighting to kiss each other, and legs kicking the body of your camera, you realize real quick that photographing a show like this one isn’t going to be about about photography at all, it’s going to be about freezing the moment so everyone can experience some semblance of quite possibly one of the best shows this year.

Fuck cookie cutter concert portraiture.

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Carlos Detres

Carlos Detres - who has written 121 posts on the Whiskey Dregs.

Carlos Detres (carlosdetres.com) is a photographer, writer, and DJ (under the alias Nico Lustgarten) who brings a haunting, intense and impulive quailty to his work that is shared among his endeavors. His work has been published and recognized by Buzzine, Performer Magazine, Mute Records, Time Out New York, LIC Magazine, Ins and Outs Magazine, Consequence of Sound, Comfort Comes, among others. Check out his photography portfolio and personal blog at carlosdetres.com

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Music on Video says:

August 22, 2010 at 3:51 pm

Great shots from the show. Especially the last one of the crowd is golden.

I was next to you shooting some video…. check out the video I posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4lgIhs5_0&hd=1
Carlos Detres says:

August 23, 2010 at 7:33 am

Great video! Were you the guy with the DSLR? Is that the quality that comes out? Also…do you shoot for anyone? Email me if you can: lustgartenny[at]gmail[dot]com.

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