The Watchers

Haley Morris-Cafiero

The Watchers

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Abstract

This series of photographs examines how society uses gaze to project emotion and how we interpret the looks of others. The research began after Morris-Cafiero noticed the facial expressions of a man standing behind her in the self-portrait she had set up in the middle of Times Square. Intrigued by the man and a similar photo that followed on the roll of film the photographer decided to set up her camera for the purpose of capturing the expressions of passersby. Each frame is chosen based on the strangers in the background, if they have a critical or questioning look, or if there is a gesture in their body language. By reversing the gaze back on the strangers, this Research begins a conversation about nonverbal interaction and the view society has on body image. This work has been exhibited in 5th Singapore International Photography Festival (2016), OBJECTIFS Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2018), The United Photo Industries Gallery Exhibition, New York, USA (2017), University of Dayton, Ohio, USA (2018) and featured in Vogue Italia (2018).

Original language	English
Publisher	The Magenta Foundation
Number of pages	144
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	1926856074
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

self-portraiture
Surveillance
photography

Access to Document

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The Watchers'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Profiles

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Belfast School of Art - Lecturer
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - Lecturer

Person: Academic

Activities

1 Invited talk

Wait Watchers

Haley Morris-Cafiero (Speaker)

21 Feb 2018

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Cite this

Morris-Cafiero, H. (2015). The Watchers. (1 ed.) The Magenta Foundation.

@book{7fbfb22bd5694ceba3b7a41d67ab08d1,

title = "The Watchers",

abstract = "This series of photographs examines how society uses gaze to project emotion and how we interpret the looks of others. The research began after Morris-Cafiero noticed the facial expressions of a man standing behind her in the self-portrait she had set up in the middle of Times Square. Intrigued by the man and a similar photo that followed on the roll of film the photographer decided to set up her camera for the purpose of capturing the expressions of passersby. Each frame is chosen based on the strangers in the background, if they have a critical or questioning look, or if there is a gesture in their body language. By reversing the gaze back on the strangers, this Research begins a conversation about nonverbal interaction and the view society has on body image. This work has been exhibited in 5th Singapore International Photography Festival (2016), OBJECTIFS Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2018), The United Photo Industries Gallery Exhibition, New York, USA (2017), University of Dayton, Ohio, USA (2018) and featured in Vogue Italia (2018).",

keywords = "self-portraiture, Surveillance, photography",

author = "Haley Morris-Cafiero",

year = "2015",

language = "English",

isbn = "1926856074",

publisher = "The Magenta Foundation",

address = "Canada",

edition = "1",

}

TY - BOOK

T1 - The Watchers

AU - Morris-Cafiero, Haley

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This series of photographs examines how society uses gaze to project emotion and how we interpret the looks of others. The research began after Morris-Cafiero noticed the facial expressions of a man standing behind her in the self-portrait she had set up in the middle of Times Square. Intrigued by the man and a similar photo that followed on the roll of film the photographer decided to set up her camera for the purpose of capturing the expressions of passersby. Each frame is chosen based on the strangers in the background, if they have a critical or questioning look, or if there is a gesture in their body language. By reversing the gaze back on the strangers, this Research begins a conversation about nonverbal interaction and the view society has on body image. This work has been exhibited in 5th Singapore International Photography Festival (2016), OBJECTIFS Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2018), The United Photo Industries Gallery Exhibition, New York, USA (2017), University of Dayton, Ohio, USA (2018) and featured in Vogue Italia (2018).

AB - This series of photographs examines how society uses gaze to project emotion and how we interpret the looks of others. The research began after Morris-Cafiero noticed the facial expressions of a man standing behind her in the self-portrait she had set up in the middle of Times Square. Intrigued by the man and a similar photo that followed on the roll of film the photographer decided to set up her camera for the purpose of capturing the expressions of passersby. Each frame is chosen based on the strangers in the background, if they have a critical or questioning look, or if there is a gesture in their body language. By reversing the gaze back on the strangers, this Research begins a conversation about nonverbal interaction and the view society has on body image. This work has been exhibited in 5th Singapore International Photography Festival (2016), OBJECTIFS Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2018), The United Photo Industries Gallery Exhibition, New York, USA (2017), University of Dayton, Ohio, USA (2018) and featured in Vogue Italia (2018).

KW - self-portraiture

KW - Surveillance

KW - photography

UR - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watchers-Haley-Morris-Cafiero/dp/1926856074

UR - https://unitedphotoindustries.com/portfolio/the-wait-watchers/

UR - https://www.vogue.it/en/photography/photostories/2018/06/19/wait-watchers-by-haley-morris-cafiero/?refresh_ce

UR - https://www.objectifs.com.sg/wip2018_haleymorriscafiero/

UR - http://sipf.sg/archive-year/

UR - https://udayton.edu/calendar/2018/02/radial-gallery-waitwatchers.php

UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/the-watchers

M3 - Book

SN - 1926856074

BT - The Watchers

PB - The Magenta Foundation

ER -