After viewing Darren's recent work and listening to his comments (and others) about the work, I was reminded of a freelance journalists and photographer named Jake Warga. His latest body of work has him going to expos and conventions in the U.S. and taking portraits of the participants. While his images are shadowless and almost boring (with their white backgrounds and strobe lighting), they are revealing nonetheless, saying more about the subject than photographer. He takes an anthropological approach to the work and takes the convention-goer out of the convention environment to perform an isolated visual study of the subject. He has an interesting quote about his work, “It’s difficult to describe the outside of the house when you are inside of it,” says Warga, 40, who lives in Seattle. “The best way to understand Americans is through their hobbies.” Or possibly even through their politics.

I still think there is a strange and important aspect to the "no man's land" perimeter images that Darren shot. Definitely worth taking a second look at those images.