Arne Svenson's controversial series Neighbours are all shot from his downtown Manhattan apartment looking through from his window into theirs. The series gained a lot of back lash from people who were photographed without their permission, and Svenson was sued by two of his neighbours who spotted images of their children among the subjects. However a court ruled that the images produced were defensible under the First Amendments guarantee of free speech, and that such art needs no consent to be made or sold.

His images were taken with a 500mm lens and are to the most part, anonymous images of people. This is a different way of voyeuristic photography which is different to the other photographers who I have looked at. This work might feel invasive to the person being photographed upon realising they were photographed without consenting, however to a viewer who wouldn't recognise anyone, they seem to be less invasive than other imagery of the same theme; Svenson describes his images as not photographs of individuals but representations of human kind; which is relatable to this anonymity which the series holds; they could be anyone. 

This effect has been achieved by the crop of the image and the composition. Swenson could have used a longer telephoto lens and made some really abstract images which didn't include the window frames but rather just a third or quarter of these images. However he is trying to tell a brief story with each image and the incorporation of the window frame demonstrates another boundary between himself and his subject.