Rian Dundon: Passenger

Riveting point-and-shoot photographs of Portland's signs, streets and citizens. "Our setting is Portland, Oregon," begins Rian Dundon (born 1980), in his foreword to Passenger. "The photographer is a 42-year-old divorced American dad. His family and city are splintering, but any feelings of regret are curbed by the thrum of money and capital moving the wheels underneath. " Using his trademark point-and-shoot Fujifilm XF10, Dundon has included here nearly 100 images of Portland and its inhabitants. The XF10 generally takes more time to operate than a single-lens reflex or an iPhone, which, in the artist's words, "slows things down. " The resulting photographs, whether depicting an eerily lit bus interior, a graffiti-laden store window or the cops and protestors he documented so effectively in his previous book, Protest City. , offer, in the words of the New Yorker. 's Luke Mogelson, "curated portraits and scenes of unusual intimacy. ".