John Dowell is a painter by trade, but chose a lens instead of a brush to capture the multiple layers of movement, lights and reflection that compose a city at large. Searching for a single moment, a single incident to capture in the metropolitan landscape, he discovered layers of incidents and spaces that created those moments. These layers were connected in time but separated by personal spaces, and became artistic events themselves. Therefore a typical background becomes the event, which examines connectedness and separateness in the layers of a vast city.