(story) A simple, natural light shot in a mundane and mediocre
Belgian hotel room but sometimes the simplest things can be the most
effective. I've always enjoyed playing with close cropping of subjects
faces (Michael Stipe once told me that I'd gotten closer to him than
any other photographer) so it was natural for me to come in close
to Thom and crop his face in-camera. What I didn't realise at the
time was that this had the effect of removing his lazy eye from the
image and so transforming his visage. A testament to the power of
black & white photography.