The Window, a 24/7/365/1 photo series. See previous posts HERE.
XVI - TL; DR: bikers, cam girls, kids drawings, no reasonable expectations
CCTV, surveillance drones, security cams, ring cams, ring lights, cam girls. Phones in every pocket recording everything everywhere all the time all at once. In the iPhoneopticon are we forced voyeurs or engaged observers? Siri listens to your conversations, Google knows your dark searches, Apple knows you’re home, Amazon tracks your purchases, Fitbit knows your heart, and Roomba literally knows all your dirt. There are “no reasonable expectations of privacy.”
NOTES:
the 3rd last photo is of a man going through garbage looking for food. (a later photo shows him eating a partially-chewed candy bar.) above his left arm you can see some children’s drawings. after the man’s dumpster-hunt they were strewn about the alley for all to see. public garbage, personal moments — they were made by our daughter years earlier, and recently thrown out as a purge due to our eviction (condo & construction). here’s lookin at you lookin at us.
the man on the motorbike, in a longer sequence of photos, carefeully folded and gave his biker cut (vest) to a bouncer who came out to escort him into the back entrance of the nightclub down the alley. the club too, has been forced out for condos… but was ironically closed just before the eviction date because of a 4 am shooting.
the woman in the knee-high black boots used to regularily airbnb a unit in the building on saturday nights. a dude in versace pajamas (other photos) always showed up. they’d party till 11 am the next day.
the ring-light in the 2nd pic was in the window for a full weekend, with a woman in front of it day and night for hours. she performed before a tripodded iphone in her robe, in her skirt, in her underwear, changing, talking, dancing, flashing, the halo of white lighting up the block.
the woman on the sidewalk laughed when her boobs were squeezed; the couple was there awhile talking and partying and it seemed light-hearted not sinister
the woman in headphones and heels suddenly turned and looked up at The Window. it was spooky.
other photos considered for this post: a man smoking crack on a balcony every 20 minutes over a weekend; a woman, dress peeled completely off, peeing in the alley; post-club chaos, several bodies supine on the sidewalk, passed-out from partying; a be-thonged woman, bent over petting a bulldog on a balcony; a woman yanking her boyfriend’s hair as he tried to walk away mid-argument …