Shared Surfaces

Shared Surfaces explores public life through glass, reflection, transit spaces, windows, and layered urban surfaces — people half-seen, passing, waiting, and briefly held within the frame.

Cover of Shared Surfaces by John G. Hoey, showing diners seen through a restaurant window layered with street reflections, signage, and the book’s black cover design.

Book Details

Softcover
8 × 10 in. portrait
130 pages
Premium Matte paper
Published by AJ Photographic Art, LLC
ISBN: 979-8-9931925-7-4

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Interior spread from Shared Surfaces showing a layered street reflection with a pedestrian passing behind glass, overlapping window reflections, parked cars, and urban light.

Interior Spreads

Selected spreads from the book sequence.

nterior spread showing diners seen through a restaurant window, layered with street reflections, a parked car, and the photographer’s reflected figure.
Interior spread showing a pedestrian with an umbrella passing behind layered glass reflections, with street details, trees, and interior surfaces overlapping.
Interior spread showing a bright flower-patterned umbrella filling the frame amid rain, pedestrians, and layered city street reflections.
Interior spread showing a woman in red seated in a dim bar interior, surrounded by dark shadows, warm light, and music venue details.
Woman walking with a cane past an outdoor display showing a group portrait of seated women in an urban public space.

Selected Images

Individual photographs from the book.

Diners eating seafood beside a restaurant window, layered with street reflections, parked cars, pedestrians, and city light.
Coffee shop window with a seated woman behind glass, layered with street reflections, lamps, cars, and painted coffee signage.
Man in a yellow shirt seated alone behind a coffee shop window, layered with street reflections and dark window frames.
Train passenger seated by a window with his hand raised to his face, layered with reflections, interior lights, and other riders.
Layered storefront reflection with an eye-shaped mirror, city buildings, cars, signage, and a pedestrian reflected within the circular mirror.
People seated inside a coffee shop seen through a window, layered with street reflections, painted café lettering, lamps, cars, and greenery.
Man seated behind a Chinatown restaurant window with a newspaper and glass of water, layered with city street reflections, cars, buildings, and evening light.
Bakery window filled with wrapped loaves of bread, layered with reflections of pedestrians, a parked car, and a North End community poster.