2023 to me felt a bit like the party was over and everyone had left; that feeling when the day is done and the crowds have disappeared. Perhaps a time for introspection and looking back. A time when many of us felt a sense of disassociation, or even loss.
I wanted to capture the essence of that year in a series of portraits, featuring local people at the conclusion of their working day. Each image shows that same moment when the world is quiet and they are each in their own head, lost in thought and contemplation of their own reality.
Although each setting is one in which human connection would be natural, these image showcase the isolation and disconnection from our environments — and from each other — that so many of us have felt since the pandemic.