These photographs were made across four countries and eight months in 2024—some familiar and some new. My focus remained the same: proximity, the unguarded moment, people absorbed in the world happening around them. What changed was the context. A cathedral square in Cologne, the Fremont Street spectacle, a Día de los Muertos mask in afternoon light. Color appears more frequently here than in the preceding work, not as a departure but as a response: some environments demand it.