‘It shows the relentless pace of contemporary life’: Misha Vallejo Prut’s best phone picture

Lives intersecting in the shared space of the city create a moment of visual serendipity

Misha Vallejo Prut had just finished aclass at the London College of Communication where he was studying for an MA in photojournalism and documentary photography, and headed to a nearby cafe. It was 2014 and he was using an iPhone 5. The degree of pixelation in the image shows the inexorable march of time since I took this," says says Vallejo Prut, who is now based in Quito, Ecuador.

Even so, I think the essence of that moment, the serendipitous intersection of lives within the shared space of the city, continues to echo the relentless pace of contemporary life."