Photos of people on the move
by Lorenzo Piccoli
For the last few months I have put aside notables photos of people on the move. There are four somehow symmetrical photos that strike me more than all the others. All of them, I realise in insight, have an aura of sacrality: maybe this is why I like them so much. I post them below, in chronological order. It feels strange to look at them in these times of forced immobility.
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Hal Morey. Grand Central Terminal of New York Central Station, 1929. It depicts the sacrality of the places that we use to move around: I had to think of Morey’s picture when reading this article, recently. Here the train station appears like a cathedral. Original here.
Alex Webb. San Ysidro, California, 1979. Mexicans arrested while trying to cross the border to United States. Original.
Sebastião Salgado. Churchgate Station in Mumbai, India, 1979. Original here.
John Stanmeyer. Djibouti City, 2013. Migrants in Djibouti searching for cell signals from neighboring Somalia. Original here.
