A day at the station

This collection of 10 photographs is part of a larger ongoing project about train and subway stations. The photos presented here were taken on three different occasions over the past several months at the new Porta Susa train station in my hometown of Torino. In the framework of a busy train station, the series deals with two somewhat interlaced more existentialist themes. The first is the loneliness of modern man. People are shown mostly alone in large empty spaces waiting (actually and metaphorically) for trains that will bring them away and elsewhere, a man walks alone --and away--from the distant crowd in photo #1, two people kiss in photo #8, but it's a farewell kiss and the lovers will soon be separated. The second theme is life as representation and acting, actually--in my understanding--one of the cardinal themes in all of street photography. This is recalled with the choice of framing where the station's structures recall and remind of a theatre proscenium (esp. #4,5,6,8). The choice of black and white is functional to these themes.