Michael Gira of Swans, photographed for Sasha Frere-Jones's music column in The New Yorker.
I rarely shoot musicians. But when I got an offer to make a portrait of Michael Gira, I did what you should do next time Swans play your town: just go.
Swans' To Be Kind is out now, and is another in a long line of masterpieces. Revisit Sasha Frere-Jones's column for which this portrait of Gira was commissioned.