Bezorger in de regen

A gritty documentary street photograph shot on Ilford HP5 400 black and white film. A mundane city street corner on an overcast, dull, grey day. The subject is a tired-looking bicycle courier in a wet rain poncho, standing on the sidewalk looking down intensely at a slightly cracked smartphone screen. The camera angle is from an oblique, hidden perspective: the photo is shot from inside a passing bus, looking out and slightly down through a slightly dirty, rain-speckled window. In the extreme foreground, the blurry, dark rubber edge of the bus window frame completely blocks the entire left third of the image, acting as an obstruction. The courier is totally unaware of the camera. Flat, gray lighting, low contrast, heavy film grain. The background street elements have a slight motion blur from the bus moving. No cinematic lighting, no eye contact, just a raw, bleak, passing everyday urban observation.