Washington DC commonly refered to as The District or simply D.C., a city known as the capital of the United States, home of the President and a city with many of the Nation’s Monuments and Museums. Maybe not known to many, the District also holds the reputation for having one of the worst traffic and congested city streets, making people turn to public transportation.

Even after the tragic train accident in june 22, 2009 that left 9 dead and many injured, public commuters still has no choice but to rely on public transportation, even if they often find hours of their day spent getting from point a to point b.

Most often you will hear the familiar phrase “Please add 30minutes to your travel time” being announce on Metro Station platforms, leaving people to spend most of their time in Metro Rail Cars.

Many have asked, why I want to photograph in the streets? Street photography has always been my passion, I just love it, the street is alive, in the streets there are endless streams of event that is happening all at the same time and the only way for me to freeze it and to look at it again at a later time is through the photos that I have taken. I never get tired of looking at those moments and can’t help but imagine the drama that took place in such a short period of time. Through my photography a second can last a lifetime.

There is this saying by the famous author Dan Millman (Way of The Peaceful Warrior) that have been stuck in my head – There are no ordinary moments and there is always something happening which is true in our everyday life, everywhere we go, anywhere we look there is always something happening, we just don’t look hard enough to notice that those moments aren’t ordinary moments they are special moments which we are a part of and is now part of our life.

In these series, I stepped out of my comfort zone to dwell into the beauty of nature but still in black and white. I see the beauty of nature much clearer if I look at them without their true color, by eliminating the color I’m eliminating the distraction which prevents me from seeing the natural beauty of each subject.

I love to photograph in the streets, for more than a year now I have been taking photographs in the Streets of Washington DC, not to document but to capture an endless stream of events that is happening around us that we don’t seem to notice as an individual.

In Part I of The City Dwellers, I photograph people in the Washington DC Metro Subway. There are probably lots of photographs taken in the DC Metro Stations but those photos are somehow obvious. In this series, I want my viewers, the public to be involve, to be a part of the photograph, I want you to decide the beginning and the end of each of the photograph in this series.