Artist Statement

Distant stares. Expressions of wonder. Moments adrift in thought.

On a city bus we are both on display and unseen — a paradox of public exposure and private interiority. Though the bus is public, riders carry silent boundaries among one another. My camera turns an ordinary commute into a quiet study: the bus becomes my studio, and its inhabitants my anonymous collaborators.

Inspired by Walker Evans’s subway portraits from the late 1930s (for example, Subway Passengers, New York City in the Met collection), People on the Bus continues this lineage — offering portraits of intimate, unguarded moments in transit. The series asks: What inner lives do we bring into public motion? What traces linger after the doors close?

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