What a city reveals when nothing particular is happening.

A city gives you its official version first. The monument, the view, the itinerary. The photographs in this chapter were made after that version runs out — in the hours when nothing particular is happening, in the interiors that hold a place's character more honestly than its landmarks do.

Studies across four continents: the medinas of Tangier and Marrakech, the light of Porto and Madrid, the pace of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the particular quality of Copenhagen and Paris at their least performed. Each study looks for what distinguishes a place from photographs of it.

Cities. Coastlines. Gardens. The feeling of somewhere before it becomes somewhere familiar.