Subway Portraits

The subjects are unaware of being photographed; by being inconspicuous I’m achieving a natural human portrait. When the subject knows that they're being photographed, the subject changes into their own personal representation of themselves, which changes how the photograph looks and feels. It changes the way the viewer sees the photograph and what they take from the photograph. We don't know these people, what they do, or what job they have, or where they’re going. All we know about them is this moment in a subway car. This mundane aspect of life where people are crammed into each other, bored, tired from their labor and escaping from reality by reading or playing games on their devices, wanting to forget.