Head in Hands

Head in Hands, Lexington Line - 2005

I think photographers have been fascinated wtih New York's subway forever because everything happens down here - the good, the bad and the ugly. You are alone here - and you are surrounded with a crush of people. You are going somewhere - and going nowhere at the same time. No matter what camera I'm using - it always finds its' way into the underground.

Directly behind me - at the same moment - two couples were kidding around with each other. A man was watching me take this photograph. Two policemen were a few yards away on walkie talkies.

A few minutes after I took this picture - the woman was helped onto a train by a young man at the other end of the bench.