the fact that they occupy ground-floor apartments (in Berlin, New York, Tokyo, or London, where the Japanese-born photographer now lives) and acceded to the anonymous request they received in the mail: "Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know.... I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening." The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness, her identity to be revealed only when her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
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