In Transit

The average subway commute in NYC is 80 minutes per day. This means that the average commuter spends just over 5.5% of a 24-hour day, or over 8% of waking hours (assuming 8 hours of sleep), on the subway several days per week. The set of pictures I am submitting is from a project titled "In Transit." In this project, I seek to explore the moments thousands of New Yorkers spend on subway platforms and trains in a state of transition. I am not interested in the physical transition of transporting from one location to another, but rather in the emotional and psychological aspects. I focus on the mental and psychological state of being between places and activities—the introspective moments occurring on the subway while transitioning from one part of daily life to another. I think of it as the life between "real life."