Pairs brings together street photographs made in New York, Melbourne, Tokyo and Los Angeles through 2025, each organized around two people who seem to echo one another. I didn’t set out to make the series. I kept noticing the same small event: a likeness in dress, posture, bearing or proximity that registered before I could explain it.
Derrida’s writing on repetition and the double shaped how I came to understand that instinct. A second figure doesn’t simply confirm the first. It unsettles it. Once two people share a frame, each becomes legible through the other, and it becomes difficult to say which one established the resemblance and which one followed it.
Sometimes the people belong together. Sometimes it’s not so clear. The photograph collapses that difference and produces a relation of its own. The street provides the resemblance. I make the pair.