By Reilly Gill (Mid-term project for Spring 2012)
Being anywhere alone in the middle of the day doesn’t necessarily have to be a lonely experience. I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo alone in the middle of a winter day in the middle of the week to see what kind of people were also at the zoo and to hopefully understand what others do when they’re alone. When I got there, however, it became apparent that aside from zoo employees, I was the only one there alone. I changed my objective to portraying what it feels like to be an outsider, to be alone among strangers, be that through perspective or subject matter.
You look at things differently when you’re by yourself. You feel things differently. This photo essay aims to make some sort of sense of these sensations, or at least present them.
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- Lunch area
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- Gorilla viewing area
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- Want some juice
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- Oh, hello
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- Lion
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- Sand cat
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- Student
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- Man and cows
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- Underwater viewing area
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- Exit underwater viewing area