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ET·020 Events 2025

Museum fragments

watching the people watching

category
Events
year
2025
location
Florence
frames
4
status
developed and fixed
A woman seen from behind stands still in front of a large painting in a museum hall, spotlit, the rest of the room in shadow.
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the work

In museums the work holds still. The visitors don't, and that's where I look.

A woman who stays in front of a painting longer than she meant to. A guard who, without knowing it, echoes the statue beside him. Stairs waiting for someone to cross them. It's a slow, quiet hunt, with the advantage that nobody ever suspects the guy with a camera in a museum.

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the sequence

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A hand near the glass of a backlit museum case, the visitor's face faintly reflected in the glass.
#01 Do not touch. The temptation, though, photographs fine.
A wide marble museum staircase seen from above, a single person climbing, natural light from a skylight.
#02 The architect had already framed the shot. I just waited for the person.
A museum guard seated on a chair beside a classical statue seated in the same position, the gallery empty.
#03 Him and the statue in the same pose for half an hour. Not sure which one decided.