2022-12-01

Szary’s Background Tendresse

The grain and the flash.

Sebastian Szary’s photos are unmistakable. Whenever he goes on tour, as a member of Moderat or Modeselektor, he takes a few dozen disposable cameras and captures all the moments that have a meaning, an aesthetic, a story for him.
A few years ago, he photographed all the backstage areas of Moderat’s 2014 tour and made a photo album of them, the famous Backstage Tristesse.
During Moderat’s tour this summer and autumn, it is the roads, the bus, the buildings, the stadiums and the nature that surrounded him in the United States and in Europe these last weeks that he made a screenshot of with his eyes.

Rocky Mountains ─ Colorado
Casino City from the bus ─ Las Vegas

Finger & sound wall ─ Madrid

HISTORY ─ Toronto

Playground ─ Hamburg

Comerica Park – Detroit Tigers VS Minnesota Twins ─ Detroit

Every night ─ Tourbus

Empty Ally Pally • Alexandra Palace ─ London

CRSSD Festival ─ San Diego

Ally Pally • Alexandra Palace ─ London

Love’s Travel Stop ─ Nevada 

Upper Bay ─ New York City

Péage ─ Calais

The Fillmore ─ Detroit

Alter Elbtunnel ─ Hamburg

Lawrence Avenue ─ Chicago

Fairplay, allegory ─ Madrid

A few minutes before the ferry. Channel crossing ─ England

La Sagrada Família ─ Barcelona

Highway ─ After Las Vegas