Project Statement
This series is an exploration of human presence within the urban landscape. The work focuses on the characters who move through its streets, strangers caught in fleeting gestures, faces etched with resilience, postures heavy with untold stories. Each photograph invites us to consider what these moments reveal about ourselves and our different realities in shared spaces. The encounters in these images are less about spectacle and more about intimacy wound into narratives that are never fully told but deeply felt.
The city, rendered in black and white, becomes a backdrop stripped of distraction, a stage where light and shadow sharpen the presence of its characters. Texture, grain, and contrast underscore the rawness of these scenes, evoking both fragility and strength. What emerges is not a portrait of the metropolis itself, but of the people who animate it, people who embody its contradictions of movement and stillness, struggle and perseverance, alienation and belonging.
Ultimately, this project asks viewers to look longer, to view the characters within these frames as not mere subjects to be consumed, but mirrors held up to our own lives: reminders of our vulnerabilities, resilience, and inequalities.
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