Scenario

'Scenario' comprises a collection of photographs that document impromptu portrait subjects in transient states and spaces.

Scenario comprises a collection of photographs that document impromptu portrait subjects in transient states and spaces.

Curtain (images 1-10) is a series of photographs of people as they pass through vinyl door curtains at the entrances of markets in New York's Chinatown in Flushing, Queens. The photographs reveal a choreography of fleeting graphic forms and gestures with each person who proceeds through the mundane, translucent insulation material. The plastic curtain diffuses light and casts long shadows from the low winter sun as it grazes across the bodies of those who pass through the membrane-like partitions of interior and exterior space.

Roosevelt Station (images 10-20) is a series of candid photographs of people illuminated by the cathedral-like light of the Roosevelt Avenue/74th St. train station in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York. These photographs show commuters, airport-bound travelers, panhandlers, missionaries and others as they pass through the station during the morning rush hour, suspended in the glowing magenta, orange and green tinted light beaming from Night Passage, a public art installation of transom windows by the artist Tom Patti. The subjects in the photographs, mostly engaged in mundane daily routines, are made theatrical by the otherworldly light that falls during the morning hours.