Out of the shadows

A Chicago artist plays out her complex feelings of urban life in exquisitely shot street scenes

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Caught in the storm, 2014.
Caught in the storm, 2011.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet/ Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

Proximity, 2014.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago)Indeed, Bonet appears to have such an adept control of the candid that you might assume her street scenes were staged. In)

Street dance, 2013.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet/ Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

Taxi, 2012.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

The commute, 2011.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

Spilt milk, 2011.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

Perpetual shadow, 2014.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago))

Arrival, 2014.
(Image credit: (© Clarissa Bonet / Image Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago)To see more of Clarissa Bonet's work, check out her website or follow her on Instagram and Facebook)

Jackie Friedman
Jackie Friedman

Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.