Wonderfully simple, intriguingly revealing....the mirror never lies.
Great work by Moa Karlberg, using a two-way mirror to capture surreptitious images of our own self-regard (the truth will always out...) The expressions on her subjects' faces range from blank to suspicious to searching to resigned and everything in between, but they're all brutally authentic. Karlberg writes that she was intent on "discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others without acting illegal." (She also wanted to test the boundaries of Sweden's increasingly strict laws on public photography.) That this intense range of emotions seems also to be self-commentary on the subjects -- they are, after all, looking right at themselves -- only makes them more fascinating.
Check it out here (click Watching You Watching Me) http://www.moakarlberg.com/
Great work by Moa Karlberg, using a two-way mirror to capture surreptitious images of our own self-regard (the truth will always out...) The expressions on her subjects' faces range from blank to suspicious to searching to resigned and everything in between, but they're all brutally authentic. Karlberg writes that she was intent on "discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others without acting illegal." (She also wanted to test the boundaries of Sweden's increasingly strict laws on public photography.) That this intense range of emotions seems also to be self-commentary on the subjects -- they are, after all, looking right at themselves -- only makes them more fascinating.
Check it out here (click Watching You Watching Me) http://www.moakarlberg.com/
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