Lookers
These photos aren't a project per se, more the result of a routine I imposed upon myself to work more from the inside while on the street. To quickly engage, to get over my discomfort and fear of strangers - the strangers I happened to be most interested in photographing. And once that was done, to try to subvert "the pose" enough to get an interesting picture.
I hope that at their best, they succeed in hitting that good spot between quotidian and narrative - with enough of that disorienting personal detail, visual echo or other anomaly that invites narrative, rather than beats the viewer over the head with it.
About Eliot Shepard
Eliot Shepard was born in 1969 in New Hampshire. In 1991, he received a B.A. In Applied Mathematics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.