Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom is fascinated by the unexceptional. He has spent over forty years taking thousands of photos of people on the street with his camera hanging around his neck and a remote shutter hidden in his pocket. Over time, he has created something of an anthropological record of contemporary life, resulting in his current project called ‘People of the Twenty-first Century’. A newly published volume contains hundreds of photos snapped each month from 1992 to 2013, showing difference through repetition. The title itself refers to a series of portraits taken by August Sander in the early 1920s, ‘People of the Twentieth-Century’, showing individuals in domestic situations or in their work environment. “It was the decision of the publishers to reference that beautiful work. At first I thought it was pretentious,” Eijkelboom explains. But now, he says, he started believing more and more in the title, while his images of ordinary people in busy shopping streets provide an insight into the ways identity has been altered over the past twenty years.