Connections With Strangers: A Photo Series Offers a Window Onto the World

Gloucester Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2010; from the ‘Hopper Redux’ series
"When Gail Albert Halaban’s daughter turned one, she received balloons, flowers and a note from some neighbours she had never met. ... The scene is staged – Halaban is in constant conversation with the subject – and deliberately lit to make it clear that they know she is photographing them. She doesn’t shoot with a telephoto lens, instead wishing to see the scene – always quotidian actions like making coffee – from the perspective of the watcher. The resulting pictures are Hopper-esque, revealing at once the isolation and humanity of connecting with someone unknown. ..."
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Berfin, İstiklal Cad, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015; from the ‘Out My Window’ series