13 months + 1 voyeuristic photographer

Photos by Hye-Ryoung Min

Interview by Kristin Oakley

There’s something eerily Rear Window-esque about what’s going on here. A shy photographer perches on a windowsill with a telephoto lens recording the lives of her neighbors for over a year: watching, taking a photo, waiting, watching, taking another photo.

But South Korean photographer, Hye-Ryoung Min, wasn’t just making images. She was watching her own reality show with a silent cast of characters and an unpredictable schedule. In a city of innumerable activities, Min looked to the quotidian and the routine for entertainment and for art, turning the windows of her Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, apartment into five television screens with only one channel.

In her own words: