The Solitary Walker Reconnoitering

"The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes… The flâneur is not attracted to the city's official realities but to its dark seamy corners, the neglected populations—an unofficial reality behind the façade of bourgeois life that the photographer 'apprehends,' as a detective apprehends a criminal." - Susan Sontag, from On Photography, 1973

Hi-res version at Lightbox Photo Archive. Image copyright Simon Kirwan - www.the-lightbox.com 2009