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A collection of images of people looking at art.

"One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed"

— Diane Arbus

In Observing the Observers, the act of looking becomes the artwork. This series captures people in the intimate moment of viewing art — their stances, expressions, and silences forming an unspoken dialogue between the viewer and the viewed. By turning the lens away from the art itself and toward those who engage with it, the project reveals how deeply personal and performative the experience of seeing can be.

Each image is a quiet study of attention and presence, blurring the boundaries between audience and subject. The gallery becomes both stage and mirror, reflecting the vulnerability of observation itself — a reminder that in watching, we too are seen.

A single viewer, distant and small, stands before a vast wall of history, the dim room amplifying the quiet act of looking.
A nearly identical moment, captured again—two visitors frozen in contemplation, their posture mirroring the patience of the works they read.
A lone viewer stands centered before the illuminated wall, surrounded by silence and the faint reflections of the gallery floor.
Two figures stand before a glowing wall, their forms outlined in gold light, quietly studying the timeline of another artist’s life.
A solitary figure leans on walking poles, pausing before a softly lit wall of text—stillness and reflection suspended in warm light.
Two figures stand close, one arm draped gently over the other, illuminated by the glow of art and intimacy.
Warm light and shadow frame visitors moving through a maze of hanging photographs, their silhouettes becoming part of the exhibition itself.
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