SLEEPYURBANITE
SleepyUrbanite is a cell phone photography project I did when cell phones first started including a camera. I was commuting to work via the "L" in Chicago and became fascinated with the people sleeping on the train. Seeing people doing this intimate thing in public, being at their most vulnerable on the train, just struck a chord with me. I began taking photos of them on my phone and then bringing them into Photoshop to create portraits.
This piece was controversial as it highlighted some of the pitfalls of the rapidly advancing cell phone technology: what expectation of privacy do we have in public? Are these photos a beautiful tribute to the urban human experience or a creepy invasion of privacy? SleepyUrbanite was featured on/in NBC News Chicago, The Red Eye, Gapersblock, VOXPOP Magazine (Paris), and Newstalk Radio (Ireland); I also appeared on The Today Show.
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