Metro Mysterio
They hear the camera snapping, but can’t figure out where it’s coming from.
Berri UQAM Metro Station - Montreal, Quebec
© Diego Cupolo 2011
Albany Terminal
The bus station crowd is what happens when you boil the fat out of American society. The strange, the old, the people living without cars among tangled spaghetti highways. You don’t have to travel to Africa or Southeast Asia to see real poverty - just visit your local bus station.
Albany Bus Terminal - Albany, New York
© Diego Cupolo 2011
Société de transport de Montréal
First time in the subway. Won’t be here often at $3 a ride … things are supposed to be cheaper when you leave New York!
In the Metro - Montreal, Quebec
© Diego Cupolo 2011
“An Unusual Being”
I had the pleasure of watching a focused musician absorb the attention of everyone on the L train Tuesday night. He played vigorously as a woman, holding her own large string instrument in a red case, watched with admiration, eyes open wide and mouth grinning. When he got off the train an older man, a cultured man, looked at me and said, “I’ve been on this planet long enough to know that was an unusual being.”
And yes, that’s a 3-inch nail in his earlobe.
Jan. 27, 2009 © Diego Cupolo 2010