The project “Neighbours” (The Neighbors) — a sort of voyeristic look at the daily life of a drowning man in apartment houses of Manhattan.
Photographer Arne Svenson, a 60-year resident of Lower Manhattan, some time watching the neighbors. This pastime is inevitable for the residents built a number of houses, and the huge Windows allow you to equip a real vantage point.
The photographer was intrigued by the endless drama that unfolded before his eyes, and began to take off. The result is a series of photographs of surreal parts of the body and reflections in the Windows.
“The people I photographed, didn’t know about this, but I am in no way going to reveal their identity. I shoot what these people specifically, not characters who can be identified, no. I took them as representatives of our kind.”
In fact, Arne Svenson did not mean anything bad and didn’t want to offend anyone, but two of his neighbors considered the project a violation of privacy and sued. The court ruled that the project falls under the first amendment about freedom of speech.
“I don’t make something lewd or offensive. My goal is to capture those moments that define our human qualities on a basic level. I realized that the only way to do this is to photograph people who don’t know about it.”
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