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Cohen’s work starts in the moment that most people would look away.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mark-cohens-close-up-street-photography
Cohen pioneered an aggressive, if not invasive, approach to his craft, shortening the distance between photographer and subject until heads were lost to the frame’s edge and only collar bones and clipped limbs remained. “I have been pushed and shoved and screamed at, but nothing serious,” he has said. “I am always aware of the edge.”