Beneath Montréal, the Métro can be seen a sequence of colour, form, and movement. Trains blur into bands of blue and white, platforms hold a formal geometry, and tiled surfaces show the marks of daily passage.
These photographs are drawn to the Métro’s textured and coloured surface: walls, floors, platforms, seats, signs, and light. Human figures appear only occasionally, small against the scale of the system. Long exposures render train movement in ways the eye cannot hold.
Under Montréal is less a document of transit than a study of underground passage: colour, motion, and infrastructure as a stage for daily life.
Scott Murphy – Photographer 