Echoes Underground

In the dim light of Munich’s underground, I photographed Kaled — a musician whose presence felt like a melody in transit. The U-Bahn, with its worn cars familiar to every Münchner, became more than backdrop: it was allegory.

The portraits dwell in paradox: a place built for velocity offers a space for stillness. The train collapses distance, yet a portrait stretches time, resisting the haste of our age. Khaled’s gaze, framed by the hum of machinery, evokes the in-between — not arrival, not departure, but the essence of being en route.

Thus these images remind us: life is less about speed than about presence, about dwelling in the brief pauses between movements.