The Work

Street & World

..It also rewards the willingness to stop when everyone else keeps walking.

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Black and white photograph taken from inside a dark vaulted passage looking through a pointed Islamic arch into a sunlit bazaar alley in Nishapur, Iran, several figures visible in silhouette against the bright light, old brick buildings, parked cars and hanging merchandise surrounding them.
Nishapur, Iran, May 2025. Through an arch that has framed this same scene for centuries.
Black and white photograph of two stray dogs standing on a rain-soaked street in Yerevan, Armenia, surrounded by pedestrians and parked cars in heavy rainfall, their wet fur and the reflective cobblestones dominating the foreground.
Yerevan, Armenia, 14 March 2022. They belonged to the street, and the street belonged to them.
Black and white photograph of the eternal flame at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, a small orange flame burning in a circular stone basin, framed by a dramatic shaft of light cutting across the dark stone floor, with the silhouetted shadows of two departing visitors cast across the light.
Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan, July 2025. The flame stays. The shadows pass.
Black and white photograph of a lone man resting on a stone balustrade outside the Louvre museum in Paris, dwarfed by ornate neoclassical arches, columns and decorative stonework, with a cast iron street lamp and rubbish bin in the foreground.
Paris, August 2021. We had worked together for years without ever being in the same room. Then one afternoon at the Louvre, we finally were.
Black and white photograph of a solitary figure walking away along a misty pier in Dunkirk, France, a seagull suspended in the pale sky above.
Dunkirk, France, October 2025. I was trying to catch her and the bird in the same frame. I almost did.
Black and white photograph of a young woman in 1930s period costume — long coat, black hat and braided hair — standing beside an ornate vintage street organ on cobblestones in Warsaw's Old Town, a second period-dressed performer visible behind her with another organ cart.
Warsaw, 28 March 2024. She noticed me a fraction too late.
Night photograph of the IranAir office on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, its illuminated sign and blue neon Huma bird logos glowing against the warm stone of a curved Haussmann building on an empty pavement, the street quiet and dark around it.
Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, August 2021. A piece of the country I always carry — found on the most famous street in the world.
Black and white photograph of two small girls in matching dark dresses standing against a wall on a narrow empty street in Valencia's old quarter, one looking directly at the camera, the other adjusting her hair, the long perspective of the deserted street stretching behind them.
Valencia, Spain, 5 October 2025. Two girls, an empty street, and whatever it was that made them look.
Black and white photograph of a lone swimmer standing waist-deep in rough surf on a Spanish beach, facing a small rocky island on the horizon beneath a dramatic cloudy sky, the vast expanse of sea and sand dwarfing the solitary figure.
Costa Blanca, Spain, 6 October 2025. He stood there a long time, looking at the island. I never found out why.
Black and white photograph of a single stone grotesque figure perched on the roofline of the Llotja de la Seda in Valencia, Spain, isolated against a stark white sky with the rough texture of the ancient stonework filling the lower half of the frame.
Llotja de la Seda, Valencia, 5 October 2025. It has been watching from up there since the fifteenth century.
Black and white photograph of a massive Second World War concrete bunker on a Danish beach, its curved surface spray-painted with the words PEACE and FCK WAR in large black letters, sand dunes in the foreground and a cloudy sky above.
Danish west coast, 9 August 2025. Built for war. Someone had other ideas.
Black and white photograph taken inside a car at Geghard monastery in Armenia, a printed portrait of Jesus propped on the dashboard in sharp focus, the blurred steering wheel and a wristwatch visible in the foreground, a faint reflected figure caught in the windscreen glass.
Geghard, Armenia, July 2025. He watches the road. Someone else watches from the glass.
Black and white photograph taken from the back seat of a car in Yerevan, Armenia, a tattooed driver with sunglasses in the foreground, his arm resting on the open window, the grand Soviet-era Yerevan railway station and an equestrian statue visible through the window behind him.
Yerevan Central Station, Armenia, July 2025. The arm says: contribute something. The city behind it has been doing that for centuries.
Colour photograph of a whole raw chicken lying on its back on a market counter at GUM Market in Yerevan, Armenia, its two yellow feet raised upright in the air, the busy covered market visible in soft focus behind it.
GUM Market, Yerevan, July 2025. Left unattended for a few minutes. Apparently not a flight risk.
Black and white night photograph of a row of reconstructed pre-war Jewish shopfronts in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland, their illuminated signs bearing names including Aron Weinberg and Stanisław Nowak, the wooden doors covered in graffiti, the street empty and quiet.
Kazimierz, Kraków, 1 March 2024. The names are still there. The people are not.
A young boy pressing his face close to a sheep, mouth open in a silent shout or call, photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Kathmandu, Nepal, 24 September 2022. He had something to say. The sheep was not listening.
Black and white photograph of wilted roses and ribbons tied to a rusted iron railing on the breakwater at Dunkirk, France, the harbour and a lighthouse visible in soft focus in the background.
Dunkirk, France, 16 October 2025. Someone tied these here. I never found out why.
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