Presence

Presence explores human trace, stillness, and emotional residue through restrained color, gesture, shadow, and fragments of everyday life — photographs where people are seen, implied, remembered, or quietly felt within the frame.

Cover of Presence by John G. Hoey, showing a minimalist black book design with the title Presence, author name, spine, barcode, and book details below.
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Book Details

Hardcover
12 × 12 in.
130 pages
Premium Matte paper
Published by AJ Photographic Art, LLC
ISBN 979-8-9931925-5-0

Interior spread from Presence titled The Way In, showing a dim interior scene with a figure near a window, curtains, reflections, and soft daylight.

Interior Spreads

Selected spreads from the book sequence.

Interior spread from Presence titled Returned Gaze, showing people seated inside a restaurant window layered with street reflections, pedestrians, and city light.
Interior spread from Presence titled Passing Churchill, showing a pedestrian walking past a pastel storefront with a Churchill portrait in the window and strong blue and pink building colors.
Interior spread from Presence titled Coverings, showing a figure with a blue umbrella seen through layered window reflections, parked cars, storefront surfaces, and city buildings.
Interior spread from Presence titled Ways, showing a pedestrian passing behind a red entrance sign reflected in glass, with street details, cars, and city buildings layered behind it.
Interior spread from Presence titled Signs, showing a person with a backpack standing before a large red Zodiac wall display covered with small image tiles and framed panels.

Selected Images

Individual photographs from the book.

Person seated on a museum bench looking at three red and brown abstract paintings on a gallery wall.
Woman seated in deep shadow inside a bus or tram, with a cyclist and city street visible through the window beside her.
Shadowed figure seen through layered glass and reflections, with a red textured wall and blurred street details beside the window.
Man seated at a café table inside a dim interior, layered with window reflections, a brunch sign, empty chairs, and street details outside.
Pedestrian silhouette seen through layered glass reflections, with red “Access Only” signage, street barriers, and urban surfaces behind the window.
Woman seated alone inside a café or restaurant window on Allée Shannon, framed by strong sunlight, shadow, and a quiet interior.
Blurred figure passing outside a window, seen through layered glass reflections, blue signage, street barriers, and a dim interior foreground.
Layered window reflection showing an interior figure overlapping with a parked car, street signs, brick buildings, and a pedestrian outside.
Mannequin head and wrapped plastic resting on a dark surface in a dim interior, creating a quiet still life of artificial human presence.
Orange vintage car passing beside a beach motel, with the street and vehicles reflected in a car side mirror.
Workers seen from above on a small platform over blue water, with bridge supports and reflections creating a symmetrical composition.