Sneaky Spectators

"Mr. Yoshiyuki was a young commer- cial photographer in Tokyo in the early 1970s when he and a colleague walked through Chuo Park in Shinjuku one night. He noticed a couple on the ground, and then one man creeping toward them, followed by another. ...

... "The couples were not aware of the voyeurs in most cases,” he wrote. “The voyeurs try to look at the couple from a distance in the beginning, then slowly approach toward the couple behind the bushes, and from the blind spots of the couple they try to come as close as possible, and finally peep from a very close distance. But sometimes there are the voyeurs who try to touch the woman, and gradually escalating — then trouble would happen.” ..."

Read Philip Gefter's article in New York Times about Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs of voyeurs watching people having sex at night in Tokyo or enjoy the audio slide show.

Gallery of the show images here.

(via Robot Action Boy)