Transportation
The Bus Voyeur of Buenos Aires
This artist takes pictures of ladies on public transit, without their knowledge, and posts them online. Why?
Girls staring pensively into space. Girls dreamily gazing out the window. Girls reading books, girls on their phones, girls listening to music and, yes, girls looking provocatively at the camera. All are the subjects of Torcuato González Agote’s voyeuristic portraits set on Buenos Aires buses, what he’s dubbed the Chicas Bondi series.
Bondi is slang for Buenos Aires buses, and the chicas of Agote’s fascination were captured "without pose and without permission," according to the project's tagline. The photographer kept himself anonymous for over a year while posting image after image on his website, generating a genuine air of mystique within the city's internet culture.