Underworld

These unaltered photographs explore the tension between intimacy and alienation, as revealed through New York City's subway system. Created through deliberate camera movements, they capture the paradoxical connection that arises when we move closer to what unsettles us. As Susan Sontag observed, photography can simultaneously distance us from reality and bring us closer to it.
The subway serves as both metaphor and laboratory: a confined space where diverse lives converge in physical closeness while maintaining a fearful distance. The familiar dissolves into abstract, distorted, spectral figures—neither fully human nor entirely abstract. They embody the shadow self: those aspects of our nature we deny, repress, or project onto others—reminding us that what we fear in others often mirrors what we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves.