Christopher Anderson

Shot on the street in extreme close-up and thus stripped of context, Anderson’s pictures capture the mixture of hope and sadness that typifies the “anonymous megalopolis”. “There’s a certain melancholy in the faces,” he says. “Perhaps I am just projecting the isolation that I personally experience when I am there. But I think it is a universal idea that hopes and dreams are infused with anxiety and frustration... maybe even fear”.

Christopher Anderson: Approximate Joy