Pass Through, Pass Over, Pass By

I began these photographs by parking on a street and walking without a fixed destination. I would often leave the more familiar routes almost immediately, turning instead into alleys, side streets, stairways, garages, and gaps between buildings. On later outings, I returned deliberately to these kinds of spaces, though the route itself remained open—changing direction, doubling back, and following whatever seemed to invite a closer look.

What drew me there was not always the space itself. At times, the narrowness of an alley, the geometry of a stairway, or the compression between buildings became the subject. Elsewhere, my attention settled on what these places happened to hold: an abandoned shopping cart, utility pipes, tangled wires, shifting patterns of light and shadow, or other incidental details easily lost in passing. The photographs move between these two kinds of attention—toward the in-between space as a subject in its own right, and toward the small visual discoveries that surface within it.

These are often places and objects we pass through, pass by, or pass over. Photography interrupts that movement. By holding a moment still and lifting it from the flow of everyday experience, the photograph creates an opportunity to linger over what might otherwise receive only a glance. In that pause, peripheral spaces and incidental details are allowed to move toward the center of our attention. These images seek to give greater weight to the places we consider least, allowing what is usually overlooked to become worthy of consideration.