Underground In Washington, D.C.

Subways are spaces that are often overlooked. Stowed away beneath the ground, these transportation networks can be isolating, foreign and surreal. People usually escape their physical environment through books, iPods, cells phones, newspapers or any means of mental distraction. These photos, taken in the Washington, D.C. subway, look at what's left in an environment where people are physically present but not actually there.

 

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Comments

[gman123]

09:30 PM on 11/09/2011

So true. Too often when I'm on the Red, Blue or Orange lines I take the opportunity to practice my anti-social behaviour... ear-buds fitted snugly in my ear listening to to my iPod or Crackberry and/or my nose buried in a book, paying little or no attention to my fellow travelers