Photographer Robert Yager has done some quality black and white pictures of gang members, their families, fights, drug use, graffiti, war injuries.
The pictures are not incredibly shocking though, they're rather just documenting, observing from a distance.
Yager portrays the subject with a great eye for detail (expressions on faces, lighting, ...)
I'd never really seen gangsters presented this way before, looking right through the usual macho-pose clichés most people know from movies and (M)TV.
I like the pictures because they're subtle, pretty narrative, but not arty(farty) at all (which happens way too often in "serious topic" photography.)
You can check the photos here:
gangster pictures
Article comments
1 - Keith
So a serious topic shouldn't be "arty (farty)" and an "arty (farty)" photo shouldn't be serious. I completely disagree with this but the beauty of life is that we're all entitled to our opinions.