Prince ConcertToronto 2011
The shot is over-exposed and the quality is akin to that of a bottle of Baby Duck, but it’s the best result I could get from an iPhone hidden behind a tall can of Heineken. (Prince doesn’t like his photo to be taken at concerts and has security to enforce this rule). At first I was a bit baffled by this restriction considering the man is a performer, but upon realizing that he wasn’t wearing any underwear beneath his tight spandex I soon realized its validity. (Though it’s not as if I had a zoom lens attached to a microscope). (That wasn’t a comment on his…errr…size).
Anyhow, this was taken during his performance of ‘Purple Rain’. He was making a deeply sexual expression as he masturbated his guitar into a sexy solo while purple and gold confetti fell in flirtation from above the stage. It was mesmerizing. This I had to see straight from my eyes with no lens playing the mediator. My thumb blindly pressed away at the shutter hoping to get at least one decent photo. And I suppose I did.
I just wish I had a photo from when I saw the concert from his point of view. When will Kodak invent a device that actually prints your memories?
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