The face arrived first

The city came after, burned white and badly behaved.

Shot with the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome, close enough for comfort to become useless. The frame is dirty in the right places: wall, glare, scaffolding, parked cars, a hand holding the jacket as if the day might fall out of it.

Provoke is not decoration here. It is pressure. Too much light. Too little distance. A face that does not soften for the camera.

Nothing heroic.
Nothing solved.
Just the street, doing its usual damage.

Provoke Archive here.