Reflections is a street photography project about seeing the world sideways.

Oxford is a city of mirrors. Bus windows. Shopfront glass. Wet roads that hold on to the sky. I started making these pictures to pass time at crossings, then noticed the layers were saying more than the street in front of me. People became silhouettes, traffic turned to streaks, the city rearranged itself into cleaner shapes.

The work is simple. Walk. Wait for rain or low sun. Look for corners where glass faces glass. Lift the camera when two scenes line up and something extra appears in the middle. A face inside a bus layered over a doorway. A coat floating across a second story window. It feels like stealing a small magic trick.

I shoot a mix of digital and film. Portra when colour helps, Delta when the light goes flat. Lenses in the 35–50 range keep the geometry honest. The edit favours quiet frames with one clear surprise. If the picture still works when the puzzle is solved, it stays.

Notes

• Oxford centre, Cowley Road, Iffley, Cornmarket, early evenings and wet mornings

• 35 and 50 mm primes, occasional 28 for tighter corners

• Digital and 35 mm film, scans matched to the digital look for a consistent set