Photographed at the corner of 23rd and 6th in Manhattan, on a cold winter's morning in 1999, this is a multiple exposure work created in-camera, by intentionally overlapping frames across a whole roll of film. The piece was created using my Afga Isolette camera. Presented in the style of a contact sheet, the film was digitised in one continuous strip on a very large flatbed scanner.
My inspiration for this work comes from the movie Splash, in which Tom Hanks' character spontaneously takes a New York taxi over 200 hundred miles, to find his mermaid love in Cap Cod. This example of the freedom of choice inherent in city life had a profound effect on me. In this image the taxis represent many different possible choices and outcomes.
