A picture of Iggy Pop is pretty common but not this one, sent to us by Peter Cooperrider, and maybe one of the most exceptional you will ever see of him. It was one of the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards “Open” category this year. Writing for the art and design magazine, Creative Boom, Katy Cowan described its creation this way: “For Culture, Antoine Veling of Australia wins for ‘Mark 5:28’, a photograph capturing the moment when members of the audience were invited on stage to dance at an Iggy Pop concert in the Sydney Opera House on 17 April 2019. Depicting Iggy Pop in a crowd of dancing fans, the image focuses on the singer, a woman reaching to touch him and a stage assistant struggling to keep people at bay. The scene, which was likened to a Caravaggio painting, conjures a biblical passage: ‘Because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’ (Mark 5:25-34, line 28).”
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