Jim Casper Editor in Chief LensCulture Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The faceless portraits of individuals in the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica reveal an intriguing amount of information and clues about each of these people. We can imagine their lives in many general ways by looking at the clothes they wear, their postures, what they carry, and how they present themselves to us against the backdrop of anonymous urban walls. Isn’t this the way we often encounter strangers on the street – quickly taking an inventory of how they appear on the surface, and then moving on, without engaging in a more personal encounter? The consistency and variety of these portraits makes the series especially successful and memorable, in my opinion.