Graffiti has always played a role in my street photography. It often represents an extreme point of view, and I will often try to match the spirit of the graffiti with a complementary or contrasting pedestrian. Such is the case here. The graffiti drew my eye first. A face with bulging eyes and strands of hair standing on end painted on a heavily textured wall represents an extreme caricature. I focused on it and waited – within a few moments, a young man entered my frame. He wore a hooded sweatshirt and half his face was hidden below a blue mask. He was deeply shadowed by the low morning sun. I caught him just as he was about to pass the strange face. In his own way, he looks as unconventional as the graffiti on the wall behind him. He appears preoccupied. He passed the drawing on the wall and never looked up.