In connection with his preference for black-and-white photography, Bob Sebastian refers to ‘the melancholic’ – and even ‘the gloomy’. In his photography he seems to be looking for an increasingly far-reaching abstraction and the images he presents are stripped of their context. The latter particularly enhances the profound, poetic character of his photography. This sometimes touches the impressive and ominous character of his music style. The remarkable thing about his photographic work is that these still images have a ‘reassuring’ as well as a ‘disturbing’ quality. And that makes them special.