Nicolas Tei

How Much Silence Can a Space Hold?

A bunched lace curtain glimpsed through a narrow gap between exterior wall panels, weeds in the foreground.
A figure lies still on a low stone wall against a vast blank stucco facade.
A fatsia plant leans over a concrete block wall, its leaf shadows cast sharply below.
A lit window glows behind bare tree branches on a building's exterior at dusk.
A man stands holding an umbrella in a wet parking lot beside fishing gear and bags on the ground.
A cardboard cutout of a police officer stands beside a stairwell.
A small garden gnome figurine and a driftwood root sit beside a shuttered storefront.
An empty zoo enclosure with a printed notice announcing the resident spectacled bear's death.
A man dances at night beside a stone monument, strung with small lit fairy lights.
A hospital room with a patient sleeping in bed, an IV pole beside a large blank wall.
A weathered public sign, its printed warning mostly faded, marked over with graffiti scrawls.
Several people crouch under umbrellas around a roadside utility box in the rain.
A crowd of people holding umbrellas stands together in front of a shuttered building.
A dense nighttime crowd fills a street, faces lit by nearby signs and phone screens.
A close view of a fist resting in a jacket pocket beside a canvas bag.
A zookeeper stands alone in an empty polar bear enclosure beside a blue barrel.
A security guard stands beneath blooming cherry blossoms, looking to the side.
A memorial of flowers surrounds a framed photograph of a polar bear.
A row of houses at dusk with lit windows, seen across an empty overgrown lot.
Two masked people wait in a living room, one seated, one in a wheelchair, shopping bags on the floor.
A living room corner with a dusty pink curtain, a worn armchair, and a wilting plant.
A Shiba Inu stands alert on a tiled ledge in a brick corridor, a bicycle behind it.
A person almost hidden behind an open umbrella stands before a fortune-teller's shopfront; a cat crosses the roof tiles above.
People wait outside a restaurant window at night, reflections layered across the glass.
A masked person sits alone at a themed park entrance, holding a stuffed toy.
A person asleep on a bench in a hollow, tiled underground station corridor.
A hospital bed lit by a sunlit curtain, a patient resting as a monitor glows nearby.
A young person rides low on a skateboard past a row of parked vans.
A wide dusk sky fading from blue to pink over a dense suburban rooftop skyline.