Apartment Neighbors

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In 2006, after two seasons of caretaking in my apartment building, I realized that I personally knew everyone who was living there, had helped many of them move in, and by then regarded quite a few as personal friends. This had never happened to me in decades of apartment living, among people who might for years remain faces passed in the hallway. I asked many of them to have their portraits taken in the stairwell, with the option to bring along an emblematic personal possession from their apartments.

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Technical notes: Taken with Olympus OM-2n camera, Zuiko 28mm f/2.8 lens; Ilford XP2 film; full-frame 35mm negative.