Walker Evans was an American photographer who was famous for documenting the effects of the great depression through photography but the work that he's done which I'm interested in are the secret photos he took on the Subway in New York of the public. He concealed a small camera by hiding it in his jacket and took photos of the other passengers, capturing their fashion, facial expressions and actions. It's interesting to see the difference in how people dressed back then to what they do now yet still have the same facial expressions and still do the same things when in the same situations as the people in the images. I don't want to sound stalkerish or weird but I like the idea of capturing images of people without them knowing, it's interesting to capture a pure, sponteneous and un-posed image.
I did a project in college which developed into me secretly videoing the reactions of the public when they would walk past and notice a huge ball like figure in the middle of the path which I had cleverly placed and ever since ive always had an interest in doing this sort of thing so I would like to possibly explore this 'secret capturing' aspect of photography again within this city brief.
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