People as Texture

Most street photography is about the individual. The decisive face, the gesture, the expression that separates one person from the background. This card is about the opposite approach: photographing crowds not as a collection of individuals but as a mass — a texture, a pattern, a density.

The shift in intention changes everything. You are no longer trying to isolate one person. You are trying to find the repetition, the uniformity, the strangeness of many human beings in one place. Rush hour is not a place to find subjects — it is itself the subject. A beach on a hot day is not background for portraits — it is a human landscape.