Tom Pearsall, The Unseen (Portrait 2020)

I'm from a small town in Western Australia. Every time you walk down the street you nod, wave and chat to at least a half dozen people you know. You can imagine I was pretty overwhelmed when walking through Paris for the first time. My imagination ran away with where everyone was going?, what were their stories? As I walked further I began to notice how anonymous humans are in such a large population. And furthermore that everyone lives in a) their own head and b) in their own bubble of influence. These images were all taken on that first walk in my first attempt at taking unplanned street portraits.

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