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10-MAY-2014

Going home, Sucre, Bolivia, 2014

Three people, framed not only in my camera, are also defined within a confining series of rectangles formed by the windows of a passing bus. The windows of the bus are streaked with grime, two of three passengers are abstracted through backlighting, and the image itself becomes more abstract because of my decision to convert it to black and white. Our focal point is the woman, who studies us with indifference. She finds my camera utterly irrelevant. The confining rectangles, the dirty bus window, and the abstractions within combine to bring a stark, gritty, yet memorable interpretation to what otherwise would just be a picture of some commuters on their way home.

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Phil Douglis03-Aug-2014 19:19
Thanks, Celia, for noting the three stories that unfold in the three layers of this image. You are right -- all of these passengers share a mundane process on public transportation, yet each is lost within their own thoughts at this moment. It is a deceptively simple picture, made even simpler by the black and white conversion that abstracts the image and removes competitive elements such as colors.
Cecilia Lim01-Aug-2014 20:56
I'm loving the layers and repetition here for the different stories they tell within a single moment. It's a deceptively simple image but it speaks of the mundane and unpleasant life on public transportation. Everyone is forcefully crammed into a shared space but each person is in fact in a different world of their own.
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