As if they were motion picture stills, the images in this book make up a sequence of people and scenes of the Calle Junín, one of the best-known thoroughfares in Medellín, Colombia. The concept of the book is the result of the fascination and nostalgia produced by the pictures of passers-by taken by the fotocineros, the street photographers of the city.

The texts, laid out perpendicular to the images, evoke the sense of movement, of walking. In this way the pictures — treasured souvenirs, for their owners, of the alliance of love and memory — bring us back to a bygone age, recapturing the clothing, cars, buildings, advertisements, shops and display windows that provided the setting for the ephemeral strolls of pedestrians in Medellín.

For almost three years, from 2005 to 2008, some 400 images were collected to form the basis of this book: an exploration of street portraiture, of Colombian fotocinería, and of the snapshots of passers-by taken by the thousands on the Calle Junín. It is a volume full of echoes and reflections, of a few lost steps, frozen in time.