We are taught, from an early age, to be wary of strangers. To keep our distance. To walk past.

This project began as a personal act of defiance against that fear. My own fear. For years, approaching someone on the street with a camera felt impossible. This project was the moment I stopped letting that stop me.

Each photograph was taken on London's Southbank over a single summer. I chose the location deliberately: a place where the city converges, where people from entirely different worlds share the same stretch of riverside on a sunny afternoon. I approached each person because something about them caught my eye, an instinct I couldn't always explain.

What strikes me still is the sheer improbability of each encounter. For both of us to be in that exact place, at that exact moment, and to actually stop and connect, however briefly, feels like something worth documenting.

These are not just portraits. They are records of unlikely intersections.