Anchored
Situated In Place
Anchored presents photographs of people paused within contemporary public space. Individuals sit, stand, or linger in environments shaped by movement and circulation, remaining situated as activity continues nearby. Architecture and infrastructure quietly influence posture, spacing, and orientation, shaping how stillness appears in places designed to be passed through. Across the book’s sequence, stillness emerges as a visible condition of public life, where private time unfolds within shared space.
Step Back
Portfolio
Step Back is a photographic study of public behavior within the Washington, D.C. metro system. The work follows how people enter stations, move through escalators and platforms, ride metro cars, and exit back into the city. Attention to posture, spacing, and orientation shows how shared infrastructure organizes movement and proximity during everyday use.
In Public, Apart
Portfolio
In Public, Apart considers how people inhabit shared urban space while remaining inwardly separate. Moving between moments of crowding and openness, the photographs focus on posture, gesture, and distance rather than interaction. The sequence unfolds gradually, allowing patterns of movement and stillness to surface across the pages. Seen together, the images describe a public life shaped less by encounter than by coexistence—where individuals occupy the same spaces, pass through the same rhythms, and remain quietly apart.
Full Stride
Portfolio
Full Stride is a photographic study of people captured at the moment of full extension while walking. By focusing on the physical geometry of the stride, the photographs highlight how everyday movement briefly transforms the body into a structured, deliberate form.
Set within urban environments, the photographs examine how individuals move forward through shared space with purpose and momentum. Neither narrative nor documentary, Full Stride offers a quiet meditation on motion, balance, and the fleeting clarity found within a single step.
Crossings
Portfolio
Crossings is a black-and-white photographic study of pedestrian movement within the city. Focusing on crosswalks as regulated spaces of transition, the photographs observe individuals and small groups navigating streets structured by signals, architecture, and the repeated geometry of painted lines. Through restrained compositions and attention to posture, spacing, and direction, the work reveals how this simple graphic pattern organizes movement, creating brief moments of shared alignment while allowing each person to remain distinct within the urban flow.
Low Ridership
Portfolio
Low Ridership is a photographic study of the Washington, D.C. metro system during moments of minimal use. Across station platforms, escalators, and metro cars, individuals appear briefly within large-scale Brutalist architecture, moving through shared infrastructure largely alone. The work examines how public transit functions when density recedes—how space, scale, and waiting become more visible within systems designed for crowds.
Sight Unseen
Street Photographs
Buzz Pioso's book Sight Unseen is informed by the progenitors of street photography—a genre with a focus that documents the everyday lives of people, primarily in a cosmopolitan milieu. The book's images reflect a keen observation of an often unseen and diverse humanity; people of all ages and ethnicities are his primary subjects. Pioso captures simple scenes such as people in conversation, hanging out, walking toward an unknown destination, waiting for or riding the Metro, and engaging with dogs. Some images are playful or humorous, while others are quiet and contemplative. Pioso instinctively understands how form and content combine to create a compelling street image, and the outcome is an homage to humankind that is both respectful and empathic.
Recurring Themes
Second Edition
Street Photographs
Through groupings of common scenes on the street, Buzz Pioso’s urban street photography prominently features people and/or pets as subjects, often up close, but almost always as a primary element in the scene. The moods and gestures of the people drive the character of each image. A range of emotions and expressions are evident in the images—bliss, fatigue, distress, anxiety, concern, anger, boredom, contempt, focus, bemusement, dignity, and more.
The Orange Line
Second Edition
Metro Moments
Buzz Pioso's images, primarily from the Washington, DC metro system's Orange Line, capture the city’s diverse inhabitants as it transports residents and visitors to all its neighborhoods, forcing people who don't typically share a space to come together in close proximity.
His images capture people within the metro system who are readily found to be seated, standing, lying down, briskly moving to board an arriving train, transferring to a different mode of transportation such as a metro bus, and more.
