Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? Does it bother you? Or have we simply grown used to the idea that, at any moment, we might end up in someone else’s frame — by chance, in passing, without ever giving permission?
Here are four stories that never actually happened.
A man with a phone pressed to his ear, as if he’s finally decided to call someone important — maybe even his father — waits for an answer, lost in thought. Does he notice the person with a camera standing below?
A woman by the window watches her neighbor. Her expression suggests either irritation or a kind of quiet, almost childlike curiosity. Nearby sits what is probably her daughter, absorbed in another screen — another phone in another pair of hands.
The neighbor, meanwhile, is filming something down on the street.
Does someone watching others ever feel that they, too, are being watched?
An older man stares at his screen for so long that it begins to feel like a call from a son breaking years of silence. What does his intuition tell him?
You could invent endless stories like these. I have no idea what was really happening.
While I was taking these photos, someone may well have been watching me, too. Honestly, though, it has never really bothered me.
In the end, we are all quietly watching one another.
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