The pleasures of walking down busy city streets and observing the strangeness of human behaviour are now largely denied to us as we all self-isolate, and the streets and shops empty out. Well, here's what we're missing. From photographer Allen Wheatcroft's monograph, Body Language: which explores "the delicate balance between connection and dislocation":
Taken between 2014 and 2018 in Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, the photographs emphasise gestures, movements, and expressions – "a visual language without words," as he puts it.
These pictures prompt us to wonder about, and empathise with, the bankers and doormen, loners and "gym rats", tourists and sunbathers – eager, perplexed, hurting – who inhabit our modern cities. With a focus on tension, loneliness, and synchronicity in contemporary life, this project captures the universal language of the body in the street.
[Photos © Allen Wheatcroft]
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