{"id":25676,"date":"2016-06-01T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2016-06-01T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:23:09","slug":"how-your-neighbours-see-you-out-my-window-photo-series-by-gail-albert-halaban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/how-your-neighbours-see-you-out-my-window-photo-series-by-gail-albert-halaban\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Neighbours See You: &#039;Out my Window&#039; Photo Series by Gail Albert Halaban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the city, with our apartments stacked so close to one another, our lives are intertwined without us ever truly knowing each other. We become familiar with our next-door noises, the comforting sounds of a table being set or a bath being prepared, but the real stories of the people living only a few breaths away we can only guess, by sometimes catching a glimpse, or even a long stare of detached familiarity, through a lit, open window. It is these slices of everyday life that provide perfect scenarios for Gail Albert-Halaban, a New York based photographer, to examine in her project \u201cOut My Window\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25676 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_dino_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_dino_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_dino_yatzer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_dino_yatzer-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_dino_yatzer-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"853\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_29street_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_29street_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_29street_yatzer-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_29street_yatzer-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_29street_yatzer-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"1024\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It all began a few years back, when the photographer\u2019s newborn baby would wake her up at random hours during the night, and the only narrative she had to keep her company through her window was of a 24\u2013hour flower shop across the street, that eventually became her first subject: \u201cI was inspired by the artist Ruth Orkin who photographed out her window. The photos I took were not all that great, but they became the first in the series\u201d, she recalls. As soon as the shop changed hands \u2013and hours, Halaban knew she couldn\u2019t stop. She wanted to see the whole city: \u201cThe best way to see it is from above, and a great way to do that is from people\u2019s apartments\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-25676 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f4_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chelsea_pensouth_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f4_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chelsea_pensouth_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f4_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chelsea_pensouth_yatzer-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f4_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chelsea_pensouth_yatzer-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f4_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chelsea_pensouth_yatzer-1024x789.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"986\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f5_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousewithdog_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f5_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousewithdog_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f5_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousewithdog_yatzer-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f5_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousewithdog_yatzer-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f5_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousewithdog_yatzer-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"1024\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f7_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chinatown_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f7_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chinatown_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f7_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chinatown_yatzer-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f7_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chinatown_yatzer-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f7_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_chinatown_yatzer-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"1024\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>She started by talking to people she knew, asking them to show her who they looked at, through their windows. In a daring move that manifests the power of art to change, not only the way we see but also the way we react to others, she brought the voyeurs and their subjects together, creating a cooperation that would lead to staged, yet simple everyday scenes she depicted with her camera: \u201cI love to connect people who are part of each other's lives but have never met before\u201d she says.  When the resulting images became a book (by powerHouse Books), Le Monde newspaper commissioned her to shoot a similar series in Paris. Through Facebook messages, letters, sometimes even notes left to doormen, Halaban first met with her subjects, and, usually over some wine, they ended up happily engaging in her project. From then on the series took on a life of its own, and now takes Halaban around the world: \u201cI just got back from Istanbul and I am heading to Buenos Aires\u201d, she tells us. To her, \u201cthe life of a city is a marriage between the people and the architecture. Every city is different. Culture is a huge part of the work, as is the architecture. No two places have been alike\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-25676 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f8_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousetv_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f8_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousetv_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f8_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousetv_yatzer-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f8_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousetv_yatzer-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f8_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_glasshousetv_yatzer-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"987\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f9_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f9_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f9_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f9_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f9_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"987\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f10_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f10_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f10_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f10_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f10_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_baby_at_window_yatzer-1024x788.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"985\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f14_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_minori_book_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f14_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_minori_book_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f14_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_minori_book_yatzer-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f14_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_minori_book_yatzer-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f14_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_minori_book_yatzer-1024x798.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"997\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>However different the landscapes, her photographs always capture, within them, the portraits of strangers that seem to be caught in private moments. Exploring the tension between public and private life, the artist examines what is seen by all, together with what is hidden. Her \u201cvoyeuristic\u201d architectural images have thus been frequently compared to Edward Hopper\u2019s art. Halaban, as so many artists usually do, admits to \u201coften looking at life in frames\u201d, so the discussion inevitably stumbles upon Jimmy Stewart\u2019s character in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Rear Window, where he plays a New York photographer spying on his neighbors from his window, using his camera. But to Halaban, photography is not voyeurism: \u201cQuite the opposite, photography has been a chance for me to get to know people and connect with them on a face to face basis. I always meet the people I photograph before I bring a camera\u201d, she says. Meeting with strangers and finally bringing anonymous neighbors into each other\u2019s lives seems to serve as a remedy to the symptoms of loneliness and detachment Halaban actually focuses on in her series. The resulting effect literally leaps out of her frames, reaching her viewers, as the photographer believes: \u201cIf people really look at the pictures they can make up stories and sort of meditate on them, thus becoming part of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-25676 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f15_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_reading_in_bed_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f15_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_reading_in_bed_yatzer.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f15_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_reading_in_bed_yatzer-300x237.jpg 300w, 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https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f20_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_vis_a_vis_paris_yatzer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f20_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_vis_a_vis_paris_yatzer-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/f20_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_vis_a_vis_paris_yatzer-1024x770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-full-width=\"1280\" data-full-height=\"962\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1660\" height=\"935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_brooklynsnow_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_brooklynsnow_yatzer.jpg 1660w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_brooklynsnow_yatzer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_brooklynsnow_yatzer-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p1_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_brooklynsnow_yatzer-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\" data-full-width=\"1660\" data-full-height=\"935\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer-1536x1184.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer-2048x1578.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer-332x256.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p2_out_my_window_gail_albert_halaban_new_york_cakesandbaloons_yatzer-664x512.jpg 664w, 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