Travels to Los Angeles, Reykjavík, Tokyo and New York reaffirmed for Grace Ahlbom the role of photography as a means of access to people and places that she otherwise might not have had. The camera became a key into the private world of musicians, skaters and others, and capturing the essence of those people by documenting their ephemeral manifestations of idleness meant, for Ahlbom, capturing their truest selves. The colour pictures include a guitarist on stage, a figure in a black beanie, a printed T-shirt and orange shorts seen from behind in a suburban street, a young person with purple-dyed hair smoking at a window, bare branches against a night sky and a steaming geothermal landscape below a snow-covered mountain.