Once again, it won't be a scoop to write that Anders Petersen (born in Sweden) is one of the greatest photographer of the last decades (he's 68 now and has worked since 1967). His approach of photography is not far from that of Miron Zownir (here) and could be summarized in "being the most relevant to social outliers lives", not making them sort of freaks we look to with curiosity or with a stinky compassion, but with whom we feel to share a common human condition. I'm not sure every of those pictures should have been made and why they have been, but here they are and we must face them. My fave is the first of this series (not chosen because these pictures are the best to my eyes but because they are the best quality ones I found on the net). This man literary eating the ass of this woman is for me an image of happiness in life, the only sensitive answer to paradise lost. A site here. Here a recent (some days ago) interview of Anders Petersen. One of the best I ever read in my life, not for the questions, but for the answers. PS. Yes the last was used by Tom Waits for his Rain Dogs album in 1985.
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