street.
The city is full of liminal moments: a foot lifted but not yet placed, a mouth opened but not yet speaking. There is tension, and implication, and suggestion; no matter how likely it seems that something will happen, it can always go differently.
These moments are brief, and fraught, and fragile. We may see them and appreciate them for a second, but then they can only be remembered. But photographed, one can linger on their complexity, and guess at what someone is saying, what they are thinking, where they are going. Processed into ultracontrast, detail and texture are heightened, and shades of gray turn to stark blacks and whites. In this harsh light, even ordinary moments become something mythic.
I feel strongly about not influencing what I shoot. There are very few photos I'll keep where someone is looking at me; as much as I love and fear the momentary shock of being seen, I prefer to be invisible, to catch genuine glimpses of what others' lives are like. I'll never ask someone to pose, or move any element of a scene. Everything that I shoot is exactly as it would have been if I hadn’t been there to capture it.
prints.
Lucia archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta Satin, printed by the artist
12” x 18” print on 13” x 19” sheet
Edition of 15 + 2 A/P
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