From underground is a photographic book presenting a curated selection of my photographs of the Paris metro, taken in January of 2015. I went to Paris intending to focus my photography on the demographic separation of the city of Paris by location, using the people at various metro stops to depict the cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic divides that exist within the city and its suburbs. However, upon arriving and beginning to photograph, I was faced with the challenges of photographing people without their consent in a foreign country and in a relatively intimate, enclosed space. I had to wrestle with the predatory nature of photography, the ethics involved in taking these people’s likenesses for my own gain, and the sheer discomfort, guilt, and often fear involved in the kind of photography I was attempting. I had to shift my approach and the nature of my project to adapt to what I was learning about myself as a photographer, and the result is a group of photographs that explore the
