Sunday 10/5 Entry

Matthew Messmer

First off, check out this guys awesomely set-up site! It's mainly in Japanese, but there are English subtitles for most of the links and it is so creative. Plus, it has all of his credentials on it.

Now, to the art. Messmer's style of street photography feels like a voyeuristic form of journalism. Its as if you're in that New York subway station, or that Tokyo train, and glancing over at these people, careful not to let them catch you staring. I've always been interested in urban social interactions. More specifically, how so many people can live and work in a single city and share it with total strangers. Naturally, Tokyo and New York are two excellent examples of this interaction. These people force themselves into subway cars and train stations, unable to avoid dealing with one another in some way.

http://www.matthewmessmer.com