Typically the escalator in the railway station of Basel (Switzerland) is pretty busy. However around lunch time on a Sunday there are only few people. In this picture I liked two contrasts: on the one hand the upright posture of the young guy compared to the old man who had to carefully look where he stepps and on the other hand the two people fronting the camera versus the two backs on the escalator below surrounding them.
The overarching theme of my photography is the children’s game “I see something you don’t see”, as I try to capture the special in the everyday. I like regular shapes and structures of any kind. I further have a weakness for the ephemeral as well as for animals and plants. In my street photography people are interchangeable anonymous actors, hence you typically don’t recognise their faces. Animals are part of the city life and their irregular activity contrasts with the regular forms of streets and buildings, whose leading lines ideally aim for a corner of the picture.
