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of a Second Series
This project involves looking for certain visual arrangements
to express what I perceive as city dwellers wandering like zombies.
I photograph city landscapes and capture strangers drifting through
the space seemingly not noticing each other or the architecture surrounding
them. I deliberately photograph people out of focus just enough to make
you feel like you have seem them before while reinforcing the point
that we rarely pay attention to individuals walking by.
The flow of the blurry figures visually expresses the
muffled sounds of the urban environment and suggests the feeling of
people swimming past one another. I played with the space between each
figure to exaggerate the interaction of what I observe as pedestrians
playing hopscotch along the sidewalk trying to sustain anonymity within
the city machine.
This series is a work in progress currently including
50 images. These scenes are from London, New York, and Chicago reinforcing
the universals present in urban pedestrian behavior.
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