Making pictures teaches me to pay attention to what is around me and be focused in the moment. My subjects are typically local—my urban garden and Mission Hill neighborhood, family and friends, and the people and streets of Boston. I look for stories, lighting, varied angles—ways of noticing and seeing more intentionally.
The day I made “Station Stop” I was returning home from a Juneteenth rally in Dorchester on Boston’s Red Line train. This was my first time venturing out on public transportation since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. The mystery of the opposing passenger’s facelessness intrigued me. I grabbed my camera and snapped the shutter while the train was moving. When the train made a station stop, the poster behind the passenger came into view. That moment became one of looking: the passenger looking at her phone, the poster woman looking at the passenger and me, and I with my camera looking at both of them.
Station Stop
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Sandra Storey
Sonnet
Never Too Late to be a Poet
The young woman you once were
catches up to you in the train station.
Even though you think you’re hidden
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Tolle Graham
Transit Woman
Mission Hill Women’s Writing Group
Transit woman
who are you?
Head down – all hat
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Joyce Harvey
Introspection
Mission Hill Women’s Writing Group
Many of us in our daily lives are oblivious, on some levels, to what is going on around us.
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