VOLUME ONE-
NEW YORK

NYC SUBWAY RIDERS BEFORE THE INVASION OF SMARTPHONES

PHOTOGRAPHY BY HIROYUKI ITO

Hiroyuki Ito’s subway photographs reveal a vanished intimacy — strangers lost in thought in a world before digital distractions took hold.

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PERIPHERAL PLACES

IN CONVERSATION WITH

CATIA MONTAGNA

A project by Catia Montagna that distills fleeting encounters and spatial poetics into triptychs - visual short stories that capture the in-between, where meaning often hides.

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SELECTED STORIES

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POINTE-AU-CHIEN
IS NOT DEAD

IN CONVERSATION WITH WAYAN BARRE

Through Wayan Barre’s documentary, we are invited not only to see but to feel the lived realities of a community standing at the crossroads of environmental collapse and cultural survival.

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presents NYC SUBWAY RIDERS BEFORE THE INVASION OF SMARTPHONES
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Photography by Hiroyuki Ito
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There’s a peculiar kind of intimacy that lives in Hiroyuki Ito’s subway photographs. It’s not the kind born of conversation or connection — quite the opposite. It’s the intimacy of solitude. Of being lost in thought, adrift in a crowd, present only to oneself. These photographs, made on New York City subways between 2007 and 2008, capture something that has all but vanished in the decade and a half since: the unguarded inner life of strangers in public.

“A photograph is still and silent. It can’t move or speak like a video. It needs the viewer’s mind to complete it.”
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presents PERIPHERAL PLACES
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in conversation with // CATIA MONTAGNA
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‘Peripheral Places’ is part of Catia Montagna’s long-term series ‘Short Stories’ — a project that distills fleeting encounters and spatial poetics into carefully curated triptychs. These short stories are not narratives in the traditional sense. Instead, they are elliptical visual fragments, as minimal and open-ended as whispers of verse, anchored in the belief that less is often more.

The places Catia captures are non-places in the Augé sense, but they hum with subtle presence. The human figure is nearly absent, but never far. Traces remain: an empty chair, a bent signpost, an empty vehicle — all imbued with the quiet echo of lives once present. Catia’s photographs are not didactic; they ask rather than answer.

“Looking back at photographs, I often wonder what became of those people with whom I briefly coexisted in a certain place and at a given moment in time. People who only left a trace of light through the lens of my camera, an impression in my memory. Who were they, where were they going?”
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presents POINTE-AU-CHIEN IS NOT DEAD
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in conversation with // WAYAN BARRE
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Photographer Wayan Barre returns to The Pictorial List with another powerful body of work that deepens his commitment to telling the stories of marginalized communities and environments under threat. Based in New Orleans, Wayan is drawn to places where cultures collide, where history and identity are at risk, and where resilience is not a choice — but a legacy.

The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe is a French-speaking Native American community of 850 members, living down the bayou. For generations, they have faced existential challenges, from protecting their homes against hurricanes, storms, flooding, and land loss to defending their legacy and culture. The annual hurricane season has started, and they are prepared for it. With the help of scientists, researchers, landscapers, geologists, lawyers, activists, and volunteers, the tribe is looking for ways to fix the past and prepare for the future.

In this follow-up interview, we explore Wayan’s evolving perspective as a photographer, the layered stories behind his photographs, and the meaningful relationships he has formed with the people who inhabit these fragile yet fiercely defended spaces.
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