All images are available as archival pigment prints 16.5" x approximately 27" for $300 unframed, $550 framed.
Trieste Centrale, 2022/2025
Gare do Oriente, Lisbon, 2024
Porto Campanhã station, 2024
Zagreb Glavni Kolodvor, 2024
Železniška postaja Ljubljana, 2024
Piraeus Station, Greece, 2018/9
Gare de Nord, Paris, 2012
Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 2012
Union Station, Toronto, 2012
Grand Central Terminal, New York, 2012
Union Station, Chicago, 2014
Gare du Palais, Quebec City, 2019/20
Warszawa Centralna, 2017/8
Balti Jaam, Tallinn, 2016/20
St.Petersburg-Glavny #1, 2017/8
Statione Centrale, Milan, 2018
Statione Santa Lucia, Venice, 2018
Helsingin Päärautatieasem, 2018
Series title: Station Time
Station Time is a study to capture how time is perceived in train stations. Entering a train station is to immerse oneself into several timelines, all concurrent. We see weighty trains in old stations, yet the people are ephemeral, ghost-like, transitory.
In these stations there is a palimpsest, or layering, of time: present experiences are constantly layered over faded pasts. The layering of colours and images simultaneously captures the energy of traveling, while evoking a nostalgia for these old places. These are the places where people travel, but trains terminate. Their future is always in question, but while they are here, the older stations seem to be eternal.
I have layered several frames so that the passing of time and our brief presence in these places is felt. Every moment, our complex bustling, our comings and goings all dissipate into the air.
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