Haley Morris-Cafiero

Series Statement
Wait Watchers is a series of photographs that document performances of my transgressing society’s rules that govern the female body and the gazes that are received as a result. My body is one that exists outside of the Western, Christian idealized female beauty standard and I use performances of mundane activities to position my body as a site for the public, unsolicited gaze. As I perform, I photograph the gazes of strangers as they pass by me. While I do not know what the stranger in the photographs are thinking or reacting to, their gaze could be considered critical or questioning of my actions in the frame.