At the Effra pub in Brixton (South London), the floor is open for  old school jazz musicians. It’s a cool and unpretentious place resisting gentrification.

Being a spectator and believing that a certain passivity is inescapable in spectatorship, I remind myself of what Aimé Césaire in his Notebook of a Return to the Native Land said: “beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle”.

Escaping the passivity in photography  is transcending the indexical value of photography, the literal, assertive meaning of the image as a proof of the reality in front of the camera.

What I wanted to visualize then is the feeling that music generates. The sensuality, the receptivity, the flow, the energy, the synergy, the aura. With an approach both intuitive and constructed, I have explored different photographic techniques such as long exposure, long exposure with flash, fill-in flash and out of focus.