On The Train

for me a train= it's all moving things and persons, in this photo I find it much better translated than the standard train pics where nothing moves and people mostly stare in the lens with the "no-emotion I'm reading/thinking/dreaming" - face

This is part of an extended series I'm working on about the experience of commuting. It's been very liberating to shoot this project because I've surrendered a lot of control over the image to the environment and the process of making it - I set my aperture, put the shutter to "B", and then exposure is "when the thing/event I'm photographing is done". Some of these have been 2 seconds, some have been 5, some 8, some 30. All hand-held. Nothing is "sharp", nothing is "clear". It's about recording an experience through a period of time, rather than trying to freeze a tiny slice of time. Whoever said a photograph HAS to be photorealistic?