Not In Your Face By Susan A. Barnett

Barnett, a New Yorker for 35 years, has always done street photography. But last summer, when she snapped a young woman in a T-shirt that had a mask image printed on the back, she says, “I realized the shirt told me so much: her style, her interests.”
She also realized the advantage of this point of view. “Our impressions of people are from the front,” she says, “but we notice how they carry themselves from the back.”
Now, during summers in the city, Barnett haunts well-traveled spots with her Leicaflex SL2 and 24mm f/2.8 lens. Positioning herself near good backgrounds, she seeks out and approaches interesting T-shirt wearers.