Advertising typically tells an individual what they are missing, and how a product or service can fill that void. These images want to affirm the viewer's value through the basic human interaction of polite conversation. There is no second step to these messages, nothing to buy, nowhere to go, no number to call.

These images are a simple interaction intended as a brief interruption of the endless commercial flow surrounding us every day.

The Amazing Stranger is a project of Jason Parker and coincides with his show at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, August 12-28, 2011.