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Abando Indalecio Prieto-Bilbao, 2025
São Bento Station, Porto, 2025
Trieste Centrale, 2022/2025
Gare do Oriente, Lisbon, 2024
Porto Campanhã station, 2024
Inside Helsingin Päärautatieasem, 2018
Zagreb Glavni kolodvor, 2024
Železniška postaja Ljubljana, 2024
Piraeus Station, Greece, 2018/9
Gare de Nord, Paris, 2012
Gare de Lyon, Paris, 2012
Union Station, Toronto, 2012
Grand Central Terminal, New York, 2012
Union Station, Chicago, 2014
Gare du Palais, Quebec City, 2019
Warszawa Centralna, 2017/8
Balti Jaam, Tallinn, 2016/20
St. Petersburg-Glavny, 2017
Statione Centrale, Milan, 2018
Statione Santa Lucia, Venice, 2018
Outside Helsingin Päärautatieasem, 2018
Series title: Station Time
In 2010, I set off on a solo trip to Paris. I wished to continue my photographic exploration on how people occupy public spaces but with a specific project. My partner suggested I focus my efforts on the many beautiful train stations in Paris. Station Time is the result. It is a study of 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 these 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. These are the places where people travel, but trains terminate. Their future is always in question, but while they are here, these stations seem to be eternal.
I have layered several photos taken from the same vantage point 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.
I continue to photograph people passing through train stations wherever I travel.
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