One Shot - The Global Focus Project

Photographer:Max Hirshfeld

Continent: North America

Country: United States

Project Title: One Shot

Project Continent: North America

Project Country: United States

Nominated By: Eric Meola
Seconded By: Lars Boering, Frank Meo

Propelled by a sense of immediacy, these photos of everyday people in everyday places attempt to reveal what we often fail to see. By illustrating the drama of a familiar gesture or a barely perceivable nervousness, I hope to suggest the larger theater of alienation where we are all players.

For this project I created a transparent architecture of fixed, repeatable dimensions through which any passing person can be photographed, allowing myself only one exposure per subject. In so doing I chose to reduce the act of portraiture to a singular, visceral moment. This ultimately liberating device gave me one chance to celebrate our commonality, one shot to connect.