BRUNO KONGAWOIN, The Walker Beneath The Streetlight (PEOPLE 2025)

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This is someone caught between drive and destination, choosing to hold still for me behind my view camera just long enough to be framed. There’s rhythm in how he stands, shoulders loose, expression sure, like the beat of the city has found its echo in him. It’s not posed to impress, but to settle. You get the sense he knows this sidewalk, or at least, knows how to belong anywhere. The pose holds space, not attention. And the ink? That’s just part of the language. They anchor him in this moment, a visual checkpoint between the journey and what comes next. You don’t get to ask the full story. You just get this look; right here, out here…

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