Symmetrical view on colourful metro platform at Petriny station in Prague. Central benches are part of a metal structure holding a green map of the line with directions on each side of the platform and two tube lamps. Closer to the tracks on both sides, longer tubular lights of green colors are hanging from the ceiling. The whole structure shapes an imaginary grasshoper from the viewpoint of the photographer.

Windows of a moving subway train at the Lexington and 63rd Street station in NYC. The windows on both sides of the train are aligned so that we can see directly through them to the station wall on the other side, bearing the words “Lex-63” in large Helvetica font. The train’s motion blurs most of the elements in the image — the windows’ outlines, the black and yellow reflections on the train’s metal siding, the orange and yellow seats inside — while the text on the far wall remains in focus.

A row of laminated glass windows stretches across the wall of an elevated subway station and recedes into the distance (converging with a line of fluorescent lights on the ceiling). The colored glass panels feature abstract circular compositions that evoke the sun, moon, and other aspects of the cosmos, all done in different rainbow hues. Sunlight streams through the windows and projects their designs onto the floor in colorful squares of light. This is part of an art installation titled “I AM A RAINBOW TOO,” by the Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson, at the Astoria Blvd station in Queens, NY. According to the MTA website, the installation “honors and reflects the evolving and diverse population of people from countless backgrounds and cultures that make up the communities in Astoria, Queens and New York City overall. The artwork focuses on the ROYGBIV colors of the light spectrum, which has long been used by many communities to reflect diversity, inclusivity, and hope. Through this artwork, Gibson embraces and celebrates innumerable cultures by inserting a spectrum of skin tones into the already recognizable rainbow color scheme.”

On a New York subway platform, a pigeon launches itself into the air, its wings spread back. Behind it is the wide yellow safety stripe at the platform’s edge, textured with rivets. Past the platform we can see the window, metal siding, and wheels of a subway train car as it sits on the tracks. Apart from the yellow stripe, the image is in tones of cool blue.

Symmetrical view on colourful metro platform at Petriny station in Prague. Central benches are part of a metal structure holding a green map of the line with directions on each side of the platform and two tube lamps. Closer to the tracks on both sides, longer tubular lights of green colors are hanging from the ceiling. The whole structure shapes an imaginary grasshoper from the viewpoint of the photographer.