Nick Turpin is a British photographer born in 1969. He studied art and design at the University of Gloucestershire, then went on to study photography, film, and video at the University of Westminster. He left graduate school to become a staff photographer for "The Independent Newspaper". Nick Turpin is the founder of the international street photographer group "In-Public". Today, he lectures at universities/galleries about his work and continues to make work.
These images above are from his series "Through a Glass Darkly", taken during the winter at the London bus station of passengers going about their daily lives. On his website, Turpin doesn't leave out any information about these photographs stating that they were taken "with a long lens hand held at 1/40th of a second". I find this interesting since we learn to hand held at no less than 1/60th of a second or the image will come out blurry or shaky. I find these images to be interesting, because they remind me of how many people we see everyday but we'll only be able to know a very small fraction of them. The foggy glass makes me think about how many of us judge the people we see, even though we can barely see into them at all.
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