Walkers

I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting
And how every little thing anticipates you
All down my veins my heart-strings call
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

                              Nick Cave

Another image made during the London rush-hour.  As usual, I am wandering and wondering, avoiding the tube and taxis - roaming the streets as I make my way back to a hotel or station. 

Just people-watching, really.. and bemused by the urgency of the walkers striding out, rushing to get somewhere.

But I like Nick Cave's reframe... that the walkers are being anticipated and called by strangers...

More interesting, I reckon, than just a commute home.

Comments

[James Hardman]

Wow. Very rare image. I like how the horizontal lines create the great perspective of the girl's silhouette.

[Steve Marshall]

Hey, James

Many thanks... this was one of those shots where you just have to hang out for a while... I was watching people across the road pass by the windows, and was experimenting with images that had car lights blurring in front of me. Then a car pulling a trailer with weird cage-like bars came down the street..the girl appeared out of nowhere...and...snap!

[kate]

A great photo, interesting the interpretation you are putting on it. I see her rushing home to her family and children not to a stranger. She is striding out with real purpose like she really wants to be somewhere. x

[Steve Marshall]

kate,

Yeah, definitely... I think that's the power and intrigue of this (or any?) image... On the one hand photographs make a claim for 'evidence' and yet we have the latitude to weave our own stories into the picture. As 'snapshots' they hint at a narrative - and we 'see' the rest....

If I see her again, maybe I'll ask her for her version of the story...;-)