Subway Culture - "The Transit Collection" Photography By Frank Mazzuca

SnapWoodbridge.com and SnapVaughanEast.com
Nov. 1, 2016
 
On September 28th at Vaughan City Hall in the Atrium Gallery, Frank Mazzuca showcased his Subway Culture artwork to the many people who attended this great event.

Subwayculture was the first solo show in the Urban Spaces Exhibition Series dedicated to fostering public engagement for the Vaughan Metropolitan Center.

Curator of Subway Culture, Sharon Gaum-Kuchar had this to say about Frank Mazzuca's work. "Mazzuca's interpretive lens captures poignant slices of time. His masterful technical execution employs abstraction to convey transitory elements of rapid movement, tactile textures and radiating light; while isolated subjects and motifs are framed as sensitive compositions to assume monumental significance. Mazzuca's photographs embody the iconic, yet they manage to transform ordinary scenarios into picturesque narratives."

Every day of the week – people, like space & time riders venture to an underground to enter a semi shiny muted metallic people mover, a sort of sub world transporter. Entering the Subway is like entering a Subworld. The “Transit Collection” by Mazzuca captures both colour and black & white active images in a sort of “day in the life” view of our transit system energy. Mazzuca sub-traveled from 6am to midnight to collect this series all shot with available and natural ambient light. The rapid transit photographic journey for Mazzuca encompassed 69 stations on four lines and over 69 kilometres of route with many of the stops traveled twice and some even three times.

“We are imaging historians….story tellers with a camera.”-Frank Mazzuca.

Check out more of Mazzuca’s photos by visiting www.flickr.com/photos/frankmazzuca.