photos above are taken in NYC, Boston, Beijing, and London
Field Note: Oct 18th was a chilly Monday in NYC, and I was sitting at a plaza that I did not know the name of. Women, men, children, parents, and couples were speed walking from one destination to another. What was stopping them from taking a close, careful look of the city? I started sketching the relationship between the ceaseless motion of people against the background of upright, steady buildings. I took out my camera to take close shots of the pedestrians, looking into their facial expressions, their body gestures, and their costumes.
Back at the hotel, I looked at every single picture: a dad is dragging his child in a loud red jacket to the subway entrance, and a man in a business suit with both his hands in the pockets is wearing a pair of fluorescent yellow Bluetooth headphones. I wonder if they are as serious as they look. Photography invites me to take a slower, closer look at people that pass by my and helps me to value my sensitivities against the busy world.