Series: “New Life”

What do you do when you lose all your subjects? In my work, I aim to capture the random collisions of people moving through crowded spaces. Suddenly, the crowds and people were gone. This left me with a powerful feeling of emptiness and loss.

These images were taken as people gradually began to return to streets, museums, and other public spaces. But through the lens of my camera, I could see that a change had taken place. People left more space. They avoided each other’s eyes. The entire “flock” moved differently.

Through these photographs, I have tried to express these opposing sensations. The hopeful feeling of returning to life, as well as the lingering sense of distance and loss.

As in my previous work, the images are created primarily in-camera, using multiple exposures to capture movement through space and time. But for the first time, I have inverted the photographs, giving them a darker, more ruminative quality. The resulting images, like the new life we have resumed, are at once familiar and strangely unfamiliar.