Documenting Subway Travel's Most Intimate Moments

Going out on assignment as a videographer for the New York Daily News, Rebecca Davis was on the subway a lot. A lot. A couple hours a day some days. Coming home from shooting the Thanksgiving Day parade in 2011, someone across from her was wearing a turkey hat, and she finally decided to use the time. She put away her intrusive work camera, took out her slim iPhone, and began taking pictures.

During the year 2012, Davis passed the time to the tune of about 3,300 subway iPhone photos, she says. In the spring she started a Tumblr page to showcase the gallery she called "Commuters" (via Animal New York). Recently the 30-year-old Davis, who's since become a senior multimedia editor at Today.com, arranged many of her commuters into a video flipbook set to the song "Brains" by the Lower Dens.