Street Level presents a sidewalk stage where passersby take part in a silent drama that extends beyond the specifics of personality and place. Largely introspective, each person photographed remains a mystery to us: a quality enhanced by the capricious effects of movement recorded by the camera, as well as the darker tonality of the prints themselves.
“What can we ever truly know of another person, ” these images seem to ask, “regardless how distinctive or familiar someone may at first appear? ” Even those people who turn toward us, looking into the camera, cannot be grasped fully.
