Dimitri Mellos Notices What He Sees

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Finding the Moments New Yorkers Ignore

While others try to lose themselves on their commutes, Dimitri Mellos finds his pictures. He’s trained himself to notice what others block out of their minds.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/finding-the-moments-new-yorkers-ignore/?pagewanted=all

Most New Yorkers try to block out the crowds. They wear headphones, gaze at their cellphones, do anything to distract themselves from their dreary commutes. That’s when Mr. Mellos looks for photographic moments.

“Often, people ask me whether some of the pictures are staged, because they find it so hard to believe that these coincidences could be occurring,” he said. “It just means people aren’t paying attention.”