This image is about space and depth. The wideangle lens excels at implying depth, but in order to do so, it needs a strong foreground anchor. In this case, I anchor the image with the woman and child. They were only a few feet in front of me, but a 24mm focal length can embrace not only their full length, but the shadows they cast as well. The people in the background are really not as far away they seem, but the wideangle lens tends to make distant people or objects very small. The Basilica of Guanajuato, which rises in the background, seems to be a great distance from the camera, but it’s only about a block away. By making everything smaller than it looks to the eye, the wideangle lens spreads the image not only in width, but also in implied depth. I converted this image to black and white because I wanted to create a double abstraction. I am shooting straight into the sun, which is just over the Basilica and out of the frame. A streak of flare suggests its presence. This strong backlighting, along with my deliberate underexposure, has turned everything into a silhouette, and stresses the roughened texture of the cobblestone street. Black and white is a medium of abstraction, and by choosing to make this image monochromatic, as well as underexposed, roughly textured and deeply shadowed, I’ve tried to make time stand still. The wideangle perspective puts us all into this image – we might as well jump in, and start walking.