Slate pinstripes
(2022)

• Mike GOLDBY

These life-sized colour image shows the disjointed torsos of figures moving through city crowds in downtown Toronto. We see a businessman in a grey pinstripe suit, a young woman in a royal blue hoodie and the back of a figure in a suede jacket walking away, photographed at waist height. This photograph captures the experience of being within a crowd. Mike Goldby has overlaid his prints with a highly reflective film that is most often used to cut glare and heat reflection in buildings. On his photographs this treatment partially obscures the images and heightens the sense of the transient nature of crowds as random reflected movement animates these otherwise static images.