With his portraits of the lower class, social outcasts, and the marginalized, he establishes an inventory that is as powerful and fragile as humanity itself—the sole focus of his work. Photography, for Anders Petersen, is to bring light to the shadow. All of his images, framed up close or from afar, feature someone. Whether it is an an anonymous being, one that is outside of the range of the “human family”, or an animal, each of his photographs offers the possibility of “being”, from an ontological perspective.