How do you kill your time when you go to work? Most of us stare at our cell phones, 1 to make eye contact with others. We just chat or play games online. Or maybe we're using the time between 2 to do our makeup, catch up on emails, or read a few chapters of a book. However, Dina Alfasi takes a very different 3.
Each day she has to travel hours on buses or trains to get to her engineering job at a hospital in Israel. Rather than look at her cell phone in silence, she uses one very special way to have 4 with strangers. It is portraits of the people she meets on public 5 every day that she is taking. The photographs 6 the tiny moments in the everyday lives of strangers. Some people lean their head against the window and go to sleep, some stare into space and have a 7, and others sit quietly to read their documents or books.
Fascinated by people she 8 every day, Dina Alfasi has been photographing unaware 9 for the past few years. It started 10 as a way to pass time during her daily commute (上下班), but it eventually became a 11 part of her artwork and life. Her award-winning photography has been 12 worldwide.
Dina told My Modern Met, "What 13 me very much are the little moments that happen every day. My work is to tell stories through a single portrait, and it 14 that all you need is just to look around and find those magic 15. "
