Anders Petersen is a Swedish documentary black-and-white photographer. In 1967, he started to photograph the late night life of regulars (drunks, prostitutes, drug addicts, transvestites...) in a bar named Cafe Lehmitz in Hamburg, Germany. He covered this place for 3 years and 8 years later a book with the same name was published.
I feel that this picture is the closest to Anders Petersen's work. He gets up close and personal with the subject; he sometimes captures intimate moments of peoples lives. It was hard for me to figure out his lighting technique but after studying his work my opinion is that he uses flash and sometimes works with available light or natural light. What makes this picture also resembles his work is the high contrast and the vignetting. 
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