Shadows and the Silent Majority is a series of photographs made over the course of a year in Rome. The pictures depict fictional encounters in the city's public spaces—figures caught in states of absorption, withdrawal, and inadvertent convergences—against the backdrop of the city’s densely layered architecture. By compressing multiple instants into unified compositions, Connors builds images that function less as documents than as analogs of the psychological reality of moving through a city. 

What emerges are scenes that feel witnessed rather than constructed—moments dense with the tension between solitude and proximity that defines urban experience. Rome becomes more than a setting; it is an active participant, a palimpsest of social organization that governs and estranges the bodies within it. The weight of its accumulated histories persist as undercurrents to the most fleeting interactions. The project extends a career-long engagement with the ways environments shape existence, but turns from the urgency of political crisis toward the quieter, more elusive currents of alienation and accident that underlie everyday life.