Refused

Dennis Lyxzén and the rest of Refused treat The Observatory in Santa Ana like a stage for an argument that has to be won, playing there on May 25, 2015, five weeks before their comeback album Freedom hit shelves.

I got into this band in 1998, at 13, off a Punk-O-Rama compilation from a record store I visited every summer as a kid, and I'd already caught their 2012 reunion shows at the Glass House in Pomona and the Warfield in San Francisco before I ever got this close with a camera. This was my first full pit access to shoot them, and the shot later went into my photo book Break Free.

Photographed on March 9, 2020, at 1720 in Los Angeles, this frame captures Dennis Lyxzén during Refused's final concert before the COVID-19 pandemic halted...