THIS IS NOT A BACKDROP

From the Brighton Beach boardwalk and LA crosswalks to street scenes in Barcelona, Bilbao, and Dublin, these portraits capture anonymous faces in the midst of life happening -- background characters brought to the fore as they encounter windows, sidewalks, docks, far-off horizons. Alive with alienation, intimacy, and possibility, these portraits quietly witness urban landscapes of confinement, dreams of escape, and the everyday acts of voyeurism that trespass boundaries and connect bodies.