Henson is a manierist as Caravaggio, Murnau or Lynch are. Their "marks" and mise-en-scène are self-evident on their works. Henson is a master of light but, rather than light, of darkness. Cinema and painting are Henson's sources. Critics talk of transition, metamorphosis, disappearance, birth. Henson's nox (night) has the fullest meaning possible and that is because darkness has an entity on its own: a fifth element. Poetically speaking, darkness shines in the same paradoxical way as a black hole devours light. Darkness made tangible. Darkness as a symbol of the mysterious unseen, of the unknown.
Some people are afraid of the dark and fear kills their human nature. Others look into the dark with eyes wide open, full of hope and emotion. If you see yourself in the latter, do not miss this sublime book. Images talk for themselves so no essays are added. [...]
Were it not for Henson's primary, almost devotional need to elicit empathy for his troubled human subjects, there's a feeling that nothing would prevent the black in his photographs from completely absorbing his attention and extinguishing his work. --Dennis Cooper
Hardcover, 16.5 x 12 inches, 192 pages, 125 color images.