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.

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.

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