_edited.png)
A train platform is one of the most human places on earth — charged with reunion and farewell, with the whole theatre of lives briefly intersecting. The grandmother with her bundle of food, the young student with a scholarship and a heart full of nerves, the couple saying goodbye without quite saying it. This image carries that lively, open-hearted energy: unexpected, generous, and full of the beautiful noise of people in motion, arriving and departing and arriving again.
Platform Tales belongs to the Layers of Time collection — close-up photographs of the weathered surfaces of a historic Ethiopian train station, where each layer of peeling paint holds the memory of another era. Printed in Australia on premium materials, it makes a compelling statement piece for contemporary interiors, hospitality spaces, and anywhere that values depth and story.