Ken Heyman

Ken Heyman, "West Virginia, Bluegrass" (1976)

"As a photojournalist you accumulate a lot of stuff, and in going through something like 12,000 photographs over about three months, I found this picture. Nobody’s seen it before. It’s from a bluegrass festival in Virginia, and it’s an extraordinary picture. Everything works. Every line leads back into the picture. Everything: the hat, and the dog, and even the tape recorder. This is what I try to get, but you don’t always get it."

Courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery