Step Back

Step Back is a photographic study of everyday behavior within the Washington, D.C. metro system. The series focuses on stations, platforms, escalators, and metro cars, examining how people enter, occupy, and exit a large-scale public infrastructure designed for circulation and density. Attention is given to posture, spacing, and orientation—how bodies align, pause, and separate within shared space.

Brutalist architecture plays an active role in the work, organizing movement through repetition, scale, and constraint. Across moments of waiting, riding, and dispersal, the series treats the metro system as a temporary condition of use: a system that brings individuals into proximity, governs their movement for a time, and then returns them to the city.