“Our setting is Portland, Oregon. The photographer is a 43-year-old, divorced American dad. His family and city are splintering, but any feelings of regret are curbed by the thrum of money and capital moving the wheels underneath. We are scattered between points of departure and arrival. All that’s left are pictures to hold the balance.”—Rian Dundon, Passenger foreword

Passenger consists of a succession of immersive full-bleed images by Rian Dundon that were shot with the same point-and-shoot camera he used to capture civil unrest in Portland in 2020, many featured in his acclaimed 2023 book Protest City. This 96-page volume juxtaposes Dundon’s forensic depictions of scenes from a battered city with intimate—and at times, heartbreaking—photographs of friends and family. “Passenger is a departure for me—the pictures are more personal, more direct, and more vulnerable than those in my previous books.” -Publisher