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The human scale redux: from the archive

Delhi, 1983. Olympus OM-2n and Kodachrome 64.

In an earlier blog piece, I showed some photographs that exemplify my interest in the scale of human beings in comparison to the cities we live in: just one or two tiny figures dwarfed by the scale of the city. Going through my archives recently, I realized that this has been a recurring theme for many years (even if unconsciously).

Here are two old exemplars of this theme (worth clicking on to open larger to see the detail here).

Baltimore, MD, Jan 1984. Olympus OM-2n and FP4.