French photographer Pierre Siedel takes eerie photos of people stopped in moments within the chaos of Beijing subways.
In these photographs, the subject in the midst of the bustling is being stripped away from his/her surroundings, transcending space and time.
This method became my “artistic medium” in which the subjects are placed in the artificial urban landscape, contemplating time. The subway, hidden and secluded, became an underground bubble that holds the flow of people.
Being isolated from the rushing crowd, one feels alienated, lonely, detached even abandoned. In this artificial universe, the underground transit bubble stirs the mind to a kind of self-reflection. I thought it would be interesting to explore through photography such absurd places like the subway where everyone is running in the same direction and never stops.
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[...] during rush hour in China knows how chaotic and overwhelming it can be as an individual commuter. Shuandjoe point us to the photography of Pierre Siedel, whose recent work “Still / Moving” [...]
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