Susan Kelley What is public, and what is private? Where does the boundary lie between them? Self-consciously, I have taken on the role as voyeur and chronicler, denying my subjects, and myself, their privacy and pushing that boundary until we are reminded that it is often nothing more than an imaginary line that most of us have resolved not to cross. Most people can feel shy or self-conscious in social situations. But this type of anxiety is temporary and once you get through the situation, life goes on as usual. My own nervousness at being seen in public using my camera, prompted a series of photographs entitled, ‘Public Places, Priv ate Spaces – Untold Stories’, which depicts complete strangers that I have approached in very public places (using public seating), and asked if they would allow me to take two photographs of them; one where they seem oblivious to the camera, the other where they stare directly into the camera. By photographing my subjects in the same manner each time, they have become the actor to my being the director. What I have tried to ‘capture’, is my intrusion into their private world, their private space – their “Untold Stories”.
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