Passersby

Big cities let you disappear. You can move through a crowd for days without meeting anyone who knows you.

In Japan the feeling was sharpest. No one knew me, and that freedom let me look closely at everyone else.

Cycling in Kyoto (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

A day in the park (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

These are photographs of quiet ordinary moments — people waiting, walking, looking elsewhere. I framed each one the way you'd frame a scene in a film: still, deliberate, unhurried. The moments weren't remarkable. Nothing much was happening and that's what I wanted to keep.

At the train station (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

Studying in summer (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

Watching the waves (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

A day in the sun (Pentax LX, 50mm f/1.4)

Passersby is about the quiet of being unseen, and the small longing to feel it for yourself.

Work Projects About Contact

Arsalan Kamal