Roderik Henderson

I saw these images a few weeks ago and have been surprised how vividly they've stayed with me. Henderson photographed people in hard times living in their cars or spending a lot of time there, at a time when he himself was on the road.

The quality of the light is so dense, packed with a wide latitude of tonal ranges that give the images an eerie underwater feeling. The way he chose to light his subjects accentuates a sadness, a disappointment, a sense of foreboding, like a storm gathering right before your eyes. Each face as rich in story as any book, each straight-to-camera stare so intensely present its hard to look away, this work is both haunting and strident in its simplicity and courage.