MICHAEL P
MARTIN
From the United States. Lives and works in San Jose, California.
Public Spaces
Public spaces are where people let down their guard, and where humanity is on show for all to see. I surreptitiously photograph people in public spaces when elements align to create a human tableau. They are travel pictures yet they do not identify the place by cultural or historical details as much as use their particulars to investigate a detached, disembodied slice of time. The detachment makes the familiar strange to us.