Thank you everybody for your honest opinions.
Some background for the photo. First of all, he's my bro. He has endured my first flailing photography steps back in the 1980's, posed for me sitting, standing, jumping, running, falling, swimming, sleeping and whatnot. Studio lights, available light, on-location light, reflectors, flashlights, bonfires, lasers, moonlight, car headlights... you name it. I have a lot of pictures of him. I have all the usual images, a hundred of each, and a few hundred not so usual.
I've shot more formal portraits and informal ones than I care to remember of more people than I can remember. I'm past that. At the moment I want something else: candid street, abstract, miksang, minimalistic, conceptual, non-documentary and sometimes just pure visual with no attached story. Often extra contrasty grungy black and white. I shoot images that convey an emotion to me, but not necessarily to others. That's why I openly ask critique here, to get response and hear the thoughts of other photographers. Yet I know that a fellow photographer is not always the best critic, because we tend look at an image in the same way, which is a completely different way than a "normal" person does it. Okay, enough of soul searching now.
I had this image cooking in my head for a while now. Unconventional composition and unexpected framing (like Anthony put it, train wreck effect). I am a big fan of negative space, and in this image it perfectly balances the "weight" of his face in the corner, imho.
Thank you all. I respect every comment and I understand both the negative ones and the positive ones and thank you warmly for them.
