Mitchell Hartman

“Passengers” is a modern exploration of daily life in NYC using the traditional look of the Street Photography genre, and presents to the viewer what is unique about the city. The NYC subway system is—both actually and metaphorically—the nervous system of New York. For most New Yorkers, the transit system defines the contours of their lives: it knits together their daily parts, and conditions their sensibilities, with smiles, anguish, music listening, and queries of direction.Nowhere else in America do citizens spend so much time underground

The Photographer, born and raised in New York City, invites the viewer to ride alongside each passenger on a bus or subway and when presented on the Newsprint paper evokes everything that makes NYC the publication capital of the world. Of course the paper which will yellow with time adds to emphasize the disposability of the times we live in, invoking feelings and emotions one might identify with their own journey.