14 Comments

1. joe | June 18, 2006 9:00 AM

   That's just fabulous...

2. wvallen | June 18, 2006 9:55 AM

   the complexity of our society is apparent here. awesome!

3. erica | June 18, 2006 10:06 AM

   That's a very touching photo (and the comment above mine says it all) ... just gorgeous!

4. Omar | June 18, 2006 11:06 AM

   Really love this! Been following your site for over a year now Travis...keep up the good work! :)

5. Cam | June 18, 2006 12:03 PM

   That is a cool picture. I'm totally with wvallen. Part of why I love the NYC Subways.

6. enfad | June 18, 2006 4:47 PM

   This is a very funny shot - notice the contrast between the two men, their clothes( their apparition ) isn`t it the formal informal

7. A lurker | June 19, 2006 9:38 AM

   This is wonderful, and so universal. Their clothes might "set them apart," but nothing else does -- the man intently up to the technological moment, the woman asleep on her husband's shoulder, the implicit trust between them. If you could photoshop them into western clothes, no one would even blink at them. In fact, it looks like no one did. Lovely shot.

8. enfad | June 20, 2006 5:19 AM

   Lurker----> why should the clothes set them apart?

9. enfad | June 20, 2006 5:22 AM

   You don`t think this lovely technologically inclined man might sell the woman , don`t you ;) ?

10. A lurker | June 20, 2006 10:01 AM

    enfad -- we live in a Western country. They are dressed in Eastern clothes. It sets them apart, meaning it makes them more noticeable. (I'd be willing to bet that Travis might not have taken the photograph otherwise.) I don't mean this as a negative statement, but I think it is a simple statement of fact. (BTW -- I lived in the middle east for almost twenty years. And no, it never occurred to me that the man might be inclined to sell the woman. You have rather a strange mindset.)

11. enfad | June 20, 2006 12:31 PM

    ---->lurker , take it easy, if you please...

12. tad | June 20, 2006 9:46 PM

    a lot going on here.. youve really caught my eye. marvelous capture. something you dont see everyday.. but something youd never see here!... nyc subways are the tick.

    stunner.

13. aw | June 26, 2006 11:37 PM

    I am drawn to the wedding rings. Western man wears his on his right hand. He must be European. Eastern man wears his on his left hand, just like an American.

14. Derval | June 27, 2006 7:07 AM

    Really love this one!