l, Limbo Pilot
A visual journey through the navigating a purgatory of quiet surrender to the modern world’s routines.
"I, Limbo Pilot" is a photographic exploration of modern-day disconnection. It began as a documentary observation of public transportation’s cold efficiency, but quickly turned inward, becoming a meditation on the numbed human experience it seemed to engineer, a state of limbo. Down there, people of all ages, faces, and lives merge into a collective current. They are united not in conversation, but in absence, inward-facing, suspended between places. It is a transit zone not just for the body, but for the mind. In the rush of peak hours, I noticed how this system, built for movement, breeds stillness of another kind: emotional, relational, human.
What fascinated me wasn’t the infrastructure or the industrial beauty of the stations, though both have a presence in the series. It was the way people drifted through these spaces on autopilot. Heads bowed, eyes glazed, headphones in. I began to see the metro as a physical manifestation of limbo: a waiting room between life’s chapters, where the self is temporarily shelved in favor of getting somewhere.