‘Metro: Scenes From an Urban Stage’
During the past eight years, Stan Raucher has spent countless hours riding and taking photographs on metro systems around the world. His candid photos capture ordinary people, from elderly couples and mothers with children to young lovers, friends and workers, going about their daily lives as they pass through the crush of this subterranean realm traveling to and from work and other destinations. “Metro,” Raucher’s new monograph, provides an intimate glimpse into the variety of human emotions and interactions that occur on this most democratic of urban stages.
Raucher took the photographs in “Metro” between 2007 and 2014 during numerous trips he made to 15 cities on four continents, capturing the metro systems of New York City, Mexico City, San Francisco, Paris, Budapest, Naples, London, Warsaw, Rome, Prague, Vienna, São Paulo, Lima, Delhi and Shanghai. Each scene in "Metro" invites the viewer to contemplate the situation and generate a personal narrative that reflects the universal thread that connects all humanity, as well as characteristics that are unique to each culture and location.
On making “Metro,” Raucher comments: “… As individuals interact with one another in these tightly packed public spaces, occasionally extraordinary situations that are unexpected, mysterious, humorous or poignant unfold. A strange or wonderful juxtaposition, a spontaneous gesture, a concealed mood or a hidden emotion may materialize and then vanish in a split-second …"
Raucher is an award-winning photographer who has been documenting aspects of the human condition around the world for over a decade. His photographs have been featured in 20 solo exhibitions and included in over 60 juried group shows. His work has been published in Slate, LensWork, Black & White magazine, the Daily Mail, the Independent, Lenscratch, F-Stop Magazine, Shots Magazine and the Havana Times. He was a 2012, 2013 and 2015 Critical Mass finalist, a 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography finalist and a 2015 PX3 Bronze Award winner, and he received a 2015 Artist Trust GAP Award. His prints are held by museums, institutions and private collectors.
“Metro: Scenes From an Urban Stage,” which was published by Daylight Books, includes a foreword by Ed Kashi and an essay by Marlaine Glicksman.
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