Aware that an image is rarely just an image anymore, for about two years I have taken pictures of passengers on public transport in many cities. Cities I live in, have temporarily lived in, or been passing through.
The fleeting encounters with people of all kinds, characters for me, trace human geography of movement that stimulates fantasy. I have wondered many times if I could come across any of the travelers again but in this period of time it has never happened. I have instead come across the gestures of some carried by others and from station to station I have observed the beauty of repetition and I have imagined patterns in which to read messages and look for snapshots made of data.
Data like snapshots capture moments of existence and viewing it has become a way to communicate complexity. We generate data that generates us and that circle extends a quality of photography: seeing what otherwise could not have been seen, discovering hidden perspectives on the world.
The passenger is a set of almost 4,000 photographs that generate shapes, drawings, stories. The passenger is all the passengers or the one that each one decides to find among all. An image is rarely an image anymore, we move in an interdependence where it is difficult to recognize our own limits and our contour becomes blurred.
The passenger appears for the first time in Suburbia where the images generate circles that order gestures and resonances forming an eye that looks at us while 77 passengers consult the mobile, 15 read, 16 sleep, 22 looks at us but only one hug some loaves of bread.