Capturing Portraits of Book Readers While Riding the New York City Subway
Shooting portraits doesn’t need to be planned. You can just spontaneously snap people’s portraits and create interesting results – of course with their permissions 😉
A smart photographer finds people reading book while riding the subway an interesting subject and shoots thousands of photographs.
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“The Last Book” is an interesting series of images collected by Dutch photographer Reinier Gerritsen, who spent 13 weeks over 3 years scouring the subway system of New York City for riders reading books. Every time he saw one, he would snap a picture and make a note of the book that was being read.
Gerritsen shot thousands of photographs during his many hours in the subways, and what resulted was an extensive catalog of subway riders and their books of choice. He has selected a large number of them for display on the project’s website where they’re arranged in alphabetical order by author’s last name.
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