Waiting to depart

Waiting to depart. 2024.

A row of budget airliners sits nose to tail on a wet apron, their orange tails and engine covers cutting through a soft green cast that feels half memory, half fluorescent light. The repeating line of light poles and boarding gates pushes deep into the mist, like a quiet procession toward elsewhere, while reflections on the tarmac hold the colour of the sky in shallow puddles. It is a picture of in between time at the edge of departure, when the planes are ready but the world outside the glass is still, and the familiar promise of escape feels both mundane and strangely cinematic.

35 mm • f/3.2 • 1/1000 sec, ISO 640