Street photography. Chicago, IL.
Faces, hands, postures, the people who sit on Chicago's benches and lean against its concrete while the city moves past them. Shot in black and white, Still Here is a street portrait series about presence and invisibility. The camera stays close, sometimes uncomfortably so, refusing the distance the city offers. These are not stories of hardship told from across the street. They are encounters. The series insists on what the city is built to overlook: that the people who occupy its public spaces most fully are often the ones seen least.