Arne Svenson Wins Prize for Photo Reportage Nannen Prize 2016

In the body of work, Svenson turned outward from his usual studio based practice to observe the daily activities of his downtown Manhattan neighbors as seen through his windows into theirs. The grid structure of the windows frame the quotidian activities of the neighbors into a highly aestheticized project of social anthropology. Voyeuristic and investigative, the body of work is a social documentation in a very rarified enviroment