Into the great wide open

Setting my camera up on a bollard outside the A10 exit of Liverpool Street station, I focus on the top of the escalator to catch people as they slide off the conveyor belt, faces glued to phones or coffee cups in hand (recyclable, of course).

There are rhythms here. Commuters are delivered with a practised urgency, their destinations already mapped in muscle memory. Tourists stall, concentrating in search of their bearings, while locals accelerate, slipping confidently into the current. Some are off to work, important appointments or even lovers’ trysts.

This is an ongoing project, started in  2023. All images are shot on film using a twin-reflex Yahica Mat camera.