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A Man Who Had Somewhere To Be

A personal series shot after dark with a slow shutter, inspired by the look of Wong Kar-wai films. The suit and the phone stay constant while the city smears past, and the face is kept as sharp as the moment allows. The last frame takes the same idea into daylight.

PortraitsCategoryPersonal projectType6Photographs
A man in a tan suit holds up his phone and looks down at it, out of focus and glowing yellow-green against a dark street.
A man in a green suit jacket stands in front of a glass wall while red lights smear across the dark behind him.
A man in a tan suit stands facing the camera at night, his body ghosted by a long exposure, with streaks of white light behind him.
The same man in the suit, smeared with amber motion blur, his face sharp, with white strip lights streaking behind him.
A woman in a red halter top glances back over her shoulder, the whole frame swept into a soft pink and white blur.
Close crop of a man leaning against a pale wall with a phone to his ear, orange light washing over his face.