Rooted in themes of voyeurism and shame, Erwin Olaf’s Keyhole series depicts individuals with their bodies hunched and turned away from the camera. In certain images, such at Keyhole #1, Olaf photographs the voyeurs as they peer through the suggested keyhole, while in others he shows the scene on the other side of the door. His casting of adolescents was deliberate; as critic Francis Hodgson’s notes, ‘Adoloscents often feel that they are being looked at all the time, with an uneasy mix of desire and hesitation, wanting to be seen and wanting at the same time to go back to that childhood refuge of being unaware of the gaze of others.’ Masterfully visualizing the unspoken, Olaf explores the tension between observation and awareness.