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Transit: A Photographic Study of The Way Lives Interact During Commuting

Chris Gampat
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11/19/2015
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Femmes dans un taxi collectif

All images by Remera. Used with permission.

“The idea behind ‘Transit’ is to document how people interact and how lives intersect and bind while traveling.” says Remera, a photographer born in Rwanda in 1981. Now living and working in Luxembourg, Remera got into photography through workshops and classes while studying in Strasbourg. Then in 2010, he fell deeper into love with the art form while travelling.

Remera does what many photographers seem to be doing these days: avoiding color because of the complications, emotions and feelings that it can arouse in an image. “In some cases, I find colors can be distracting, the eye can get lost in variety of elements,” he says.

His story is one that tries to analyze how folks interact during public commutes.

 

Phoblographer: Talk to us about how you got into photography.

Voyageur

Remera: I had a photography course for a semester, during my architecture studies. For one year, we had to develop a project using a film camera. It was the first opportunity to get into the basics of photography and to spend time in darks rooms.

A few years later, prior to trip in China, in 2010, I bought my first DSLR, a Canon EOS 1000D. The idea was to document the one month trip around China. Since then, this camera and now a Fuji X-E1 follows me everywhere I go

Phoblographer: What got you into street photography?

Vieil homme dans un taxi colletcif

Remera: For me, street photography is a way to capture places and people around me. Subjects invisible to common eyes then become outstanding. When I’m traveling, street photography helps me understand different cultures, meet different people, and above all give me the opportunity to show the world through my eyes

Phoblographer: Transit is a project about people commuting on a daily basis, so what made you want to do the project?

Remera: Last year, I traveled around Morocco for a few weeks. By using public transport, taxis or spending time in bus stations, I realized that these places are not only made to travel, but have become a means to exchange, discuss and share. The idea behind “Transit” is to document how people interact and how lives intersect and bind while traveling.

Phoblographer: To you, what qualifies as a moment that is worth being photographed?

Remera: For me that moment tells a story or questions the reader. This is what I strive to do through my photographs. With that moment, I want to take the reader with me to discover others cultures. to see how others live elsewhere.

Phoblographer: Why is this entire project in black and white?

Taximan dans son rétroviseur

Remera: In some cases, I find colors can be distracting, the eye can get lost in variety of elements, taking the focus away. The diversity of tones and contrasts we can have in black and white are interesting for me. Even if in my recent projects, I tend to use more and more colour photography

Station de taxi

Queue à la porte du bus

Passagers à la station

Passagers à l'entrée du bus

Passagère de bus

Passager à la porte

L'homme au chapeau

Hommes traversant la route

Homme sur la route

Entre deux

Deux hommes le long de la route

Croisement

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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