One of the things I enjoy the most is watching people pass by, trying not to be noticed. In a big city as Barcelona I often find myself staring at people’s faces, gestures and movements while I make up their life history, their thoughts or their ambitions. Usually, I end up wondering what vision they might have on life, are they aware of our fragile but powerfull existence?
The photographer Simon Hoegsberg has been able to capture these fleeding moments in the course of 20 days at the railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007. He’s merged 178 unknown people in a photograph that’s 100 meters long. Most of them didn’t notice that they were being photographed.
Visit his website to take a long look at this amazing project, presented in an original slideshow.
