Caught between the surge of Zagreb's morning rush hour traffic and a maze of banners and electrical wires, this fellow keeps the glass of commerce clear and clean. This kind of work is almost invisible – the people who keep the infrastructure operating often have no fixed place to work. Their jobs take them everywhere and anywhere. I loved the morning light and how it helped abstract this man. Instead of a specific person, the backlighting makes him into anyone and everyone. I hem him in with diagonals – the tilted building, the tram below him, the banner that hangs across the street, the maze of electrical wires. He works in a complex world, which he takes for granted. I made this image as he paused to study the effect of his job, fingers poised, ready to move on to the next window. He takes no heed of the huge beer advertisement across the street that acts as a reflector for the golden morning sun. It’s just another surface in a city of surfaces. But for my purposes it adds a splash of warm color to complement the blue of the sky, a vivid counterpoint to the shadowy world of the window washer.