People Who Watch People Having Sex in the Park
Kohei Yoshiyuki is a Japanese photographer best known for The Park, his series of photographs of people watching other people have sex in the public parks of 1970’s Tokyo. It’s that exact mix of hilarious, depressing, and creepy you’d expect to get from pictures of people hiding in bushes and touching themselves.
The photos are currently being exhibited in Liverpool’s Fact Gallery and are displayed in a darkened room. Once you arrive, you’re given a torch to guide your way around the space and witness the peepers in their natural habitat – darkness. It’s a creepy but oddly intimate experience, and adds another layer to the project, turning you into the voyeur as soon as you start perving on all the perverts.