The black-and-white photography of Marcus Bleasdale, who has spent over a decade documenting the conflict-torn Congo, includes some of the most comprehensive and richly textured images to have come out of the area. Bleasdale has a knack for capturing the spontaneous – his camera immerses itself in successive, wildly contrasting environments and waits for his subjects to reveal themselves in a single perfect, instinctive gesture. Thus his photos are all about movement, and the way it animates everything from a soldier-filled jungle to a children’s municipal shower. Bleasdale’s Congo work is the focus of a show at Anastasia Photo opening September 15th.

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