Crossroads in motion

Crossroads in motion. 2011.

All the bright lines here are really just people passing through a shared space for a few seconds. The long exposure turns individual cars into streams of colour, drawing a map of how movement cuts across the frozen grid of the streets. Warm orange trails run over the cold blue and white of the snow, so the whole scene becomes a diagram of heat and motion sitting inside a quiet winter night.

The elevated viewpoint is important. From above, the intersection feels less like everyday traffic and more like a nervous system, signals firing in every direction. It is about that feeling of being one small traveller inside a much bigger pattern, where every turn of the wheel leaves a temporary mark that disappears as quickly as it appears.

130 mm • f/25 • 25 sec • ISO 200