Voices Among Us
Sometimes words alone cannot explain or express the depths of what is “cool.” But in this case the “words” are what make it cool.
Of any generation, today’s young adults understand how intimately connected the world truly is. Katrina. Asian Tsunami. Youtube’s Chocolate Rain. Ugh Facebook. Yet in the daily walk of our lives, do we truly engage our fellow pedestrians?
Thus in 2005 I discovered Danish thinker and photographer Simon Hoegsberg. Simon conducted a social experiment over the course of 3 months. He stopped 150 strangers on the streets of Copenhagen and New York, and asked them what they were thinking about the second before he stopped them. He recorded exactly what they told him and then took their picture.
The Thought Project: Life-Snaps by Simon Hoegsberg brings to life the vocal anthologies of people’s inner most thoughts, ruminations, secrets, hopes and fears. The honesty of their words is simply cool…



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