To Think I Almost Missed You

To Think I Almost Missed You is my farewell letter to New York City, my home for the last 8 years. In an effort to capture something that is truthful to the spirit of the city and went to Times Square, the most touristic, chaotic and public place of all, and photographed strangers. This series of extreme close ups, taken with a 1000mm mirror lens, do not give the viewer too many details about where they are, but rather isolate precious snippets, expressions, gestures that would otherwise be impossible to catch. It is almost a conceptual oxymoron, as the intimacy of the shots is in contradiction with anonymity granted by the crowd populating Times Square 24/7. My goal is not only to freeze the unstoppable, but more to seek for the unlikely: moments of vulnerability and humanity that one would not think belong here. The photographic process also comes to play in the project, because sounding out the square for hours with a shallow focused super-tele lens searching for moments worth being captured, feels like arriving in New York again for the first time. Unsure of what is happening, unsure of why are so many people here but convinced that, in the midst of all that chaos, there must be something worth the hunt.