• All the way down

    I’m really not a train guy. Despite all the images on this blog suggesting otherwise, I couldn’t tell you the first detail about locomotives or gauges, routes or liveries.

    But in the gleaming – or dilapidated – vehicles, the frenetic stations and the detritus, I see stories. Of adventure. Of tragedy. Beginnings and endings. Speed and stasis. The machines that deliver us to the moments: the defining experiences of travel…

  • Double Escalator

    A quick shot going up an escalator, somewhere in the north part of the Paris Metro system.

  • The Depths of Châtelet

    An escalator in the massive Châtelet station in the Paris Metro. In the center of the city, the station was just over 100 years old when I took this shot back in 2001. No need for digital film grain and dust filters on this shot — actual film grain and dust comes from the Ilford HP5 I used at the time, and the Nikon scanner to make the digital image. I miss the darkroom days.

  • Davisville Yellow

    A distinct splash of colour amidst the muted tones of Davisville station.

  • Late Train

    A lone passenger departed a late night train at Finch station – the end of the line.

  • Running

    At Eglington Station.

  • Going

    Somewhere along the Bloor-Danforth line.

  • Louvre Escalators

    A long view of the different floors of the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, with modern architecture that’s an unmistakable nod to Louis Kahn and his geometric features.

  • Instruction Tile

    One of the escalators up to track level at Warden Station.

  • Inbound Rush

    Just before the closing of the subway doors, at a station on the Bloor-Danforth line.

  • Moving Up

    A couple moving between the East-West and North-South platforms of the Younge-Bloor station.

  • Escalators

    Shoppers at Le Bon Marche in Paris.

  • Almost to the Top

    Escalator in the metro station Vieux Lyon/Cathédrale Saint-Jean, leading to the funicular tram to Fourvière.

  • Musee at Night

    The sign says “The most important collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.” That both says it all, and is merely a beginning — a portal to new worlds, new ideas and new creativity. The Centre Georges Pompidou is my favourite place in the city of Paris.

  • Up / Down

    Three levels of the Hôtel de Ville Metro station, one of the original eight stations in the city’s system when the first section was first opened in 1900.

  • Snowy Subway

    Outside the Navy Archives/Penn Quarter Metro station after a few hours of snowfall.

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