Historically, street photography has centred on the socio-political dynamics of human interaction and moments of expressive gesture. Lisa Saltzman’s practice expands this tradition by focusing on a dimension often overlooked: the intimate relationship between people, place and time. In urban environments, encounters are fleeting and peripheral; figures surface and vanish almost before they are consciously registered. Through the use of exposure and motion, Saltzman captures this fragile threshold, where a subject momentarily holds still while already slipping into memory.

Anonymity lies at the core of this work. Where street photography often assumes that photographing a stranger renders them familiar, Saltzman preserves their unknowability. This distance becomes a source of quiet, bittersweet wonder. Her figures, caught in moments of temporal suspension, appear both present and elusive, strangely sculptural, resistant to recognition. Rather than resolving the encounter, Saltzman allows it to remain open, foregrounding the fragile, transient nature of urban life.