A series of images reflecting on the isolation of transit by New York-based photographer Bill Ellis. Chronicling his life through self-portraits and the landscapes that surround him, Ellis’s work serves as a visual diary, with each photograph offering a glimpse into a constantly evolving sense of self and the relationships that define his world. In his self-published monograph, Commuter, Ellis captures a period when he was splitting time between New York City and rural Pennsylvania due to a long-distance relationship and working as a driver on a delivery truck. His commute started to feel more familiar than “home.” His sense of New York was not a fixed place but rather a “passing building facade.” The natural landscape of Pennsylvania becoming similarly “glimpsed—blurred” and perpetually out of reach. And moving through it all is Ellis, offering a fragile presence in a world that doesn’t wait.
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