Instant Views [o.] Passengers | Photos by John Schabel

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For about three years in the 90’s, New York-based photographer John Schabel took on a voyeuristic project involving people seated on planes, as seen through the aircrafts’ porthole windows. Unbeknownst to the anonymous flyers, the photographer would snap shots of them with a telephoto lens from a safe distance, nearly 100 yards away. The series, titled Passengers, reveals intriguing portraits of the unknowing travelers powerlessly waiting for their flight to takeoff. Some of them appear to be anxiously preparing themselves for the trip while others have already begun their slumber. *