Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #146, she was putting on lipstick, the silver pole separated them, they were engaged in animated conversation, I was trying to get the shot of both in focus, her on the left applying lipstick, the pole, and the young man on the right -- both in constantly compelling poses. I ended up with this face-to-face photo of the beautiful young man with a big hole in the knee of his pants, and face contact. The woman in blue on the left interests me too, especially the blue she brings, and also the mysterious, perhaps mischievous, look on her face. The trains have been so silverized plus those awful orange plastic seats, by which everyone is reflected usually on subway (filtering images poorly with light, not like those old photos of many people's submissions) -- unlike when Bruce Davidson took his fabulous richly-deeply-colored and hauntingly beautiful shots (I saw at Aperture tonight). I'm grateful for this opportunity to rethink subway photography -- also for the pleasures & lessons of looking at everyone's entries.