I began studying photography in 1993. From the beginning, I was drawn to the lights and shadows created by subway architecture, particularly the way the cars and tracks are bathed by the streetlight. Illuminated by artificial light, everything looked quiet and detached from reality. The lighting often created dreamlike shadows, sometimes creating ghostly effects. I was fascinated with those surreal images.

I used a 35mm SLR camera for the first few years. Then, in the Fall of 1999, I experimented with a rented Hasselblad and black-and-white film. I installed a tripod with a cable release on the platform. Instead of using a flash, I used a long exposure and a slow shutter speed to capture the transforming contours of shadows over time.  In April 2000, I visited the station again, this time using the same Hasselblad, but with color film. It was a sunny Sunday morning, and I felt as if the lighting from the street level looked perfect. Just as I had done before, I set up her tripod on the platform and pressed the cable release. I continued to work for about thirty minutes until a policeman interrupted me. The results of that half-hour's work developed quite beautifully, and I felt blessed. The images I captured that morning were first exhibited in a solo show, which opened at the SoHo Photo Gallery in Tribeca on Thursday, September 6th, 2001.