Obese people are often teased because of their size and weight.
This is no different for Memphis-based photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero, who has always been aware of strangers making fun of her behind her back.
Using this ‘awareness’, she turned it into a photography project called ‘Wait Watchers’, where she captures people giving her strange looks in public.
According to Morris-Cafiero, this project was born while working on a separate project titled ‘Something to Weigh’—while processing a film, she noticed a man sneering at her from behind when he was having his picture taken.
The same incident happened at a separate location five minutes later.
Armed with self-timing camera, she began capturing the expressions of passing strangers that seem to “question” her presence in front of them.
“I now reverse the gaze and record their reactions to me while I perform mundane tasks in public spaces,” describe Morris-Cafiero. “I seek out spaces that are visually interesting and geographically diverse. I try to place myself in compositions that contain feminine icons or advertisements. Otherwise, I position myself and the camera in a pool of people…and wait.”
Click here to check out more photos from her series.
[via Haley Morris-Cafiero]