MumboGumbo performing at Rektango ( a Friday evening summer open-air club in Salamanca Place, Hobart). Catch them if you can!Â
It’s a challenge to capture a live performance in a single photo. This was available light (shade, fortunately) and quite a cluttered stage and background. My key agenda was to get the whole band in the image - Each one of these musicians is individually hugely talented, but they are not a collection of 5 soloists. Their playing is tasteful, tight, syncopated and sometimes quite sparse. When solos occur they dazzle, but otherwise the players hold back to enable a fantastic R&B groove.Â
I shot from the side to remove, as much as possible, the space between the players. I’ve possibly overdone the vignette but I really wanted to ‘declutter’ and keep the eye contained in the image.Â