Series - FotoSlovo 2025 - Category « Street Photography »

Conceptually, these are simple recordings of people walking with undisclosed purpose, separated in plastic space in seemingly choreographed but otherwise uninteresting tableaux. Characters are connected by no means other than where they were when the shot was taken. Images made with this technique may appear fictitious and constructed, but they're not. I wait, often for long periods, for the right organic distribution of people. Although the scenes are real, shooting them this way can make them look unreal.

People are spatially arranged as though carefully directed. They give the appearance of automatons preconditioned to act like self-absorbed and isolated passersby. Perhaps their robotic looking formations signal a time when we’re no longer able to discern what is human and what isn’t. The influence of digital technology on the street scene may be illustrating a boundary between the real and virtual worlds, giving a real city the look of a science fictional one.