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Human relations are strange in Hannah Minzloff’s images of transit systems.

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Hannah Minzloff

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WHAT: Underground, on car no. 5163, Yonge/University TTC subway line, to May 31. www.hannahminzloff.ca.

WHY: Minzloff shoots subway commuters around the world with a Horizon panoramic camera, capturing the dimensions of their daily commute. Her shots are saturated with the pervasive silence, suspicion and muted curiosity that engulf commuters. The long film exposure lends a fluidity and ghostly element of transience to each image, while her use of black-and-white gives just the right touch of hard-edged clarity and drama. She makes you wonder why people pack themselves into close proximity twice a day only to wilfully ignore each other in their iPod- and newspaper-enclosed solitudes.

BUZZ: Minzloff is chair of Photopolis, the Halifax Festival of Photography, and president of that city’s ViewPoint Gallery.

NOW | May 15-22, 2008 | VOL 27 NO 37

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Comments

Posted by coldcitydweller on 05/15/2008, 02:12 PM

What a great idea! I'm going to go look for that car today. I wish the article said how long you might have to wait around a station for the car to come by. Oh well, I can spare an hour sitting in a station with a coffee!

Posted by Kathryn on 05/16/2008, 03:43 PM

What an idea! Bravo!