TITLE: Inside Out

My photographs explore the boundaries between public and private. In this era of the curated social media persona, these images are part of an ongoing street photography project that aims to capture people in unguarded moments, experiencing their inner lives in public places. All of the images in this series involve windows. I am interested in the ways that windows frame, reflect, obscure, and expose both subject and photographer.

Each of these images is intended as a visual parable, inviting the viewer into an enigmatic tableau where she is called to join the photographer in becoming a storyteller. I work in black and white to strip away the distraction of color and to evoke a bygone era of film noir and photojournalism

AUTHOR: Barbara Bolsen (United States)

Barbara Bolsen is a Chicago artist whose photography explores human stories as they are revealed and concealed in public spaces. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, and worked as a camera-carrying journalist for 20 years. She has studied photography at Columbia College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Richard Stromberg Chicago Photography Classes. She currently works as an executive at a nonprofit that provides health care and housing to individuals experiencing homelessness.