METROPOLITAN LIVES

Subways are a railway system in which electric trains travel along passages below ground transporting thousand of people every day. Subway becomes the nerve centre of the metropolis and at the same time a crossing zone. Inside it, empty gazes, momentary stares, worried faces, lost expressions. Walker Evans defined them as naked faces, when he shot the subway passengers in 1940.
Thirty-nine years later, in the peak of the financial crisis, Reinier Gerritsen photographed people in the New York subway between Wall Street and Grand Central Station.

5.04pm 09.06.09

It's wonderful to take a look at each individual and discover the innumerable feelings all doing the same action: waiting. Gerritsen assembles his photos from a number of shots that he takes within a few seconds avoiding to be seen. This collection has been exposed in the Netherlands Fotomuseum and also published in a book call Wall street stop .

where creativity is born

Have you ever stopped walking to take a look through the window by passing in front of a studio? Models, drawings, mess, lights open while the city is sleeping...what an amazing atmosphere!

Mamastudio ,Varsaw_Poland

The Australian photographer Paul Barbera, is capturing the soul of different studios abroad in his so called project Where they create. The pictures are amazing as well as the wide variety of places in which creativity can flow. It is very curious to find common threads in different continents and containers: old factories, mansards, apartments, stores shares a feeling of stillness and serenity.

It's also interesting to take a look at the other project which Barbera is working on Love Lost a very sensual and intimate daily travel

CITY SIGHTING SYNDROMES

In the middle of August, all European main cities are crowded by reflex cameras with huge lens shotting the most insignificant urban scenes just because they have a kind of exoticism. The cities are invaded for tourist, the worst nightmare for those citizens who rest in their place at summer.

However, all of us are tourist too and we also shot insignificant but "rare" stuff with our giant lens. The acid look of Rilk Tulka and his talent hand, reflects how ridiculous are people when they are touring a city. In this case, his draws are focused on the tourist of Paris and their behaviours.

Here you have the whole serie Tourists in Paris published in his Flickr profile.