Dansende jongen in metro

Candid documentary black-and-white photograph inside a moving New York subway car, a young boy caught mid-dance, one hand on his head, knees bent and hips twisted in the middle of the aisle in a white shirt and trousers. Shot from a low seated position at the far end of the car, camera around waist height as if the photographer is another passenger, a 28mm wide lens at f/2.8 taking in grab poles, sliding doors, ad panels and ceiling reflections. Deep space with seated passengers laughing on both sides, a woman on the right thrown back in genuine laughter. Hard overhead fluorescent light bouncing off the polished speckled floor, high contrast with crushed shadows and blown highlights. Boy in a split-second pose with faint motion blur in his hands, nobody looking at the camera. Shot on Ilford HP5 pushed, heavy visible film grain, slight vignette, dark out-of-focus seat-back framing the foreground, off-center composition. 3:2.