127th@StNick (United States, 2005-2010)
For five years Nadja Groux photographed the same street corner in New York, from the window of her apartment on the fifth storey. What began as a game – stealing moments – grow into a consistent series of street scenes that took place on the corner of 127th Street and St. Nicholas Terrace in Harlem. With her series, arranged like a story board, Groux, both an artist and a social anthropologist, exposes the diverse forms of observation and control in the neighbourhood: from police helicopters and security cameras to the drug dealer’s ‘footsoldiers’ guarding their territory, the photographer’s secret gaze, and ultimately, our gaze.
