NYC-based photographer Arne Svenson has earned his neighbors’ ire for his latest photo project.
Titled ‘The Neighbors’, the project consists of a series of secretly taken photographs depicting the residents of New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood through their windows.
His neighbors are understandably unhappy, crying out at the invasion of their privacy, and are considering legal action.
Svenson defends himself by saying that he is no different from a bird watcher.
“For my subjects, there is no question of privacy. They are performing behind a transparent scrim on a stage of their own creation with the curtain raised high. The neighbors don’t know they are being photographed; I carefully shoot from the shadows of my home into theirs. I am not unlike the birder, quietly waiting for hours, watching for the flutter of a hand or a movement of a curtain as an indication that there is life within.”
The photographs are currently on sale for thousands of dollars.
[via New York Post, images via Arne Svenson]