From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2014): this gallery and contributor remarks reflect their original publication period. The train passengers are identifiable only through the original photographs; do not infer names, private stories or present circumstances.

The Point of View by Leonardo Milani

The Point of View by Leonardo Milani

The Point of View series is about the tension between the collective and the individual space in urban contemporary life. Shot on the trains throughout São Paulo, Brazil, these pictures are a poetic investigation about our relation with the other.

Due to the huge concentration of people inside the train cars, people happen to share their privacy with other. Each picture tells a individual’s story: the lady reading music, the man and the radio etc. Their story, their lives

The work was shot in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, through the last couple of years. Leonardo tells us.

Passengers’ hands and a bag seen from above on a trainSave

Seated passenger looking downward on a trainSave

Train passenger reading sheet musicSave

Passenger with head bowed inside a crowded trainSave

Passenger holding a patterned bag on their lapSave

Passenger resting beneath a hatSave

Train passenger holding a small cameraSave

Passenger holding a phone on a trainSave

Passengers sitting close together from overheadSave

Passenger holding a folded newspaperSave

Passenger reading printed materialsSave

Train passenger looking at an open bookSave

Two passengers beside each other on a trainSave

Person reading while seated on a trainSave

Passenger with earphones holding a phoneSave

See Leonardo Milani’s Tumblr.

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