Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Seattle Coliseum, 9/11/92

I didn’t discover this image on the proof sheet until seven years after it was taken. I guess it just didn’t make much sense to use at the time. Sadly, years later, it allegorically made too much. Rarely do stage images take on this sort of import, and in this case it's almost purely through the composition and use of negative space to evoke scale and emotion. Negative space for a negative creep, as Kurt would most likely say while chuckling softly. I don't recall the camera details on this, but the image is full frame, and taken with a 24 or 28mm wide angle lens, using a flash on Tri-X film. I always found it nerve wracking shooting from behind the performer, but it also allows the view...View all