Street photography does not always need a crowded frame to tell a story. Mixed-media artist and street photographer Taylor Coble often does the opposite, isolating a person, gesture, reflection, or small detail and allowing the surrounding space to become part of the narrative. Through tight compositions, unusual angles, and carefully timed observations, ordinary moments begin to feel more deliberate, mysterious, and cinematic. That approach carries across both Coble’s traditional photography and more experimental work.
Double exposures, reflections through glass, selective color, and layered imagery often merge people with their surroundings, while other pieces are further transformed through techniques such as etching and painting on printed photographs. Black-and-white imagery also plays a major role, emphasizing contrast, shape, texture, and the relationship between a solitary figure and the architecture surrounding them. Many of these photographs seem to offer only fragments of a larger story. A person crossing an empty space, someone seen through a window, or two overlapping moments can suggest loneliness, curiosity, tension, or introspection without spelling out exactly what is happening. By keeping the visual information relatively restrained, Coble leaves room for viewers to imagine what might exist beyond the frame.
Scroll down to explore a selection of his photography, and let us know which image made you stop and look a little longer.
