Snippets reflect the transitory experiences we have when passing through scenes, places, and times with people that are fragmentary and atomistic pieces of a great whole.
Snippets of Warsaw was created over several days in July 2026, during a European heatwave. It was my first time vacationing alone in more than 20 years, and I was moving through a city whose language I could neither speak nor understand. That separation shaped how I photographed: I often held back, placing people within the streets, architecture, and light around them rather than pressing close.
My days became long, solitary walks through the city, with podcasts in my ears and sweat running down my back. When I was not making images, I read and wrote, giving me time simply to be with myself. I left Warsaw physically exhausted but photographically energized and confident in my ability to explore and photograph unfamiliar cities alone.
All images made using a Leica Q2 and lightly edited using Darkroom and/or Apple Photos. An extended version of this series was first published on Glass.
Christopher Parsons an amateur Toronto-based documentary and street photographer, and has been making images for over a decade. His monochromatic photographs focus on little moments that happen on the streets and which record the ebb and flow of urban life over the course of years and decades.
His work often tries to capture the urban landscape from unfamiliar perspectives and routinely focuses on attention to small and transient details of his environments. Rather than pursuing individuals on the streets he focuses on the backdrops of the urban environment and how subjects live their lives passing through them.
His work has been highlighted on Ted Forbes’ YouTube Channel, The Art of Photography, on the Photowalk Show podcast hosted by Neale James, Street Photography Magazine, as well by the Glass social media platform.
Outside of photography, Christopher has worked on high-profile national and international privacy, data security, and national security issues. He is currently employed at a government data privacy and transparency regulator.
