shiro13:

Dear Stranger, by Shizuka Yokomizo

For this 1998-2000 series of portraits, photographer Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:

“Dear Stranger,

I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”

The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).

Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.

(via rocketgirl)

bitchville:

Tom Robinson’s photography project documenting his family and friends’ reactions to the exciting news that he was going to be a father. Predating that series, Robinson started another personal photography project of him and his girlfriend’s feet, side-by-side, on their traveling adventures entitled Feet First.

The ongoing series, which began in 2005, was originally composed while Robinson and his girlfriend Verity were sitting on Brighton Beach in England. The initial thought was that it would make a nice photo but it grew into a wonderful photographic record of their lives together, around the world. The project took an even more touching turn in 2011 with the arrival of their daughter Matilda. Now, the project has progressed to feature three sets of feet - Robinson, Verity, and Matilda.

Feet First by http://www.tomrobinsonphotography.com/

(via tapaking)