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"StreetMax 21” attempts an other-worldly street scene designed to illustrate a boundary between the real and virtual worlds. By waiting, often for long periods, for the right organic distribution of people, he makes photographs which appear fictitious and constructed but are nonetheless shot in real time. Non-speaking city dwellers are spatially arranged as if carefully directed. They appear as ciphers preconditioned to act like self-absorbed passersby, connected by no means other than where they were when the photograph was taken. Conceptually, these are simple recordings of people walking with undisclosed purpose, isolated in seemingly choreographed but otherwise uninteresting tableaux. By making a real city look like a science fictional one, "StreetMax 21" marks a time when we began to question what was and wasn't human.