Subway Photographs I am a collector of fragments, a narrator telling a story of humanity by evidence passengers leave behind in the spaces of the subway. They are nameless and faceless, transient, leaving their warmth on a subway seat, scratching their name in greasy Plexiglas, and proclaiming their love on the subway door. Thousands of people moving toward their destination collect and pass time in the cars. My photographs are based around the physical structures and spaces of the subway. While some images are quiet and contemplative, others are loud and full of the rocky movement of transit. I transform these spaces through my camera into painterly abstractions focusing on line, color and texture.

These environmental portraits were taken in Boston and New York between 2001 and 2006. I shot film cross-processing in the development stages to over saturate the original color and add contrast. Sticky blue vinyl, cold chain link fences and sweaty paper under green fluorescent lights create emotional landscapes building a conversation about memory, time and decay.

Julia Clinker, one of my professors at RISD, wrote a beautiful article about this work that was published in NY Arts Magazine, March 2003. Click here to read it on the NY Art Magazine online archive.