Into the great wide open Setting my camera up on a bollard outside the A10 exit of Liverpool Street station, I focused on the top of the escalator to catch people as they came off the conveyor belt, faces glued to phones or coffee cups in hand (recyclable, of course). I watched and wondered where these people were going. No doubt some were off to work or places to be, important appointments or lovers’ trysts, tourists (heads stuck in Google Maps), while a few were definitely locals- you could tell by the way they accelerated off the escalator and knew precisely where they were headed. This is an ongoing project, and I shot the following images over a 10-week period during 2023. All images are shot on film using a twin-reflex Yahica Mat camera.
