Why “Pits”
From my first hardcore show, I was taken by mosh pits. As a young athlete, “the pit” was the ultimate musical playing field. It brimmed with the danger and uncertainty of a contact sport, and had the boundaries of one as well: knock a man down and help him back up, and don’t take a blow personally.
The pit was place where you could let the music take over your body with a Pentecostal fervor, and dance ecstatically without judgement. The pit was a place where the music became a human drama, in its rawest and most primitive form.
While I don’t slam dance or crowd surf anymore, the raw energy of the pit still inspires me to snap a few frames.
Brooklyn Bazaar, Brooklyn, 2018
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Brooklyn Bazaar, Brooklyn, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Brooklyn, 2016
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Brooklyn Bazaar, Brooklyn, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm
Saint Vitus, Brooklyn, 2017
Canon 5D MkII
50mm