B Y EMILY MOSER/PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR I
N THE AFTERMATH OF A TRAGEDY, how does a photographer go out and take photos, or continue blogging, and pretend like everything is just fine? It doesn’t feel right. You don’t want to focus on it, but you don’t want to let it define you, but you can’t ignore it either. On Instagram I began a series of black and white photographs, which I titled Commuter Life, to try and cap- ture the mood I was feeling. Black and white seemed appropriate — a little somber, a little mourning — the way I felt stepping out that Monday and boarding a train on my way to work. I tried to focus on the people that ride the trains, as opposed to the trains them- selves. Four people lost their lives the day before, and they could have been any one of us. Those people on the plat-
form that we see every day as we both commute... It’s a way of life we share. Included with every photograph is a
short musing on my part. It was more of a stream of consciousness thing — none of the photographs were staged, nor were the comments planned in ad- vance. I carried my camera, and cap- tured the things that caught my eye — from people waiting for the train, to Hudson Line “refugees” playing cards on a packed train to pass the time. In most of the instances, the subjects were unaware I was even photographing them.
You will find the twelve photographs of the series, and their accompanying captions, here, presented with no fur- ther commentary.
—EMILYMOSER
A relatively somber mood on the platform as we all head to work.
We wait for the train, but others are in our thoughts.
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