How to pass that time on that dreary journey to-and-from work? Read a book? Check your emails? Browse the Internet? People watch? Or maybe read a newspaper?

Photographer Matt Crabtree has been spending his travel time secretly taking pictures of his fellow commuters with his smart phone. He then retouches these images to make them look like figures from 16th century paintings—and the results are quite beautiful.

Crabtree is a self-taught photographer based in London who “looks for the quietly observed, minimal story.” Such stories can be found in his series of photographs 16th Century Tube Passengers. These photos take a moment out of time and make us see something we often take for granted.

More of Matt Crabtree‘s work can be seen here.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds
Tube Tales: Photographs of Commuters on the London Underground 1970s-1980s
Classical paintings by Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rembrandt recreated with Auto Mechanics.
Classical paintings inserted into contemporary urban settings
 
H/T Lost in E Minor and Ufunk.