--- description: Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström capture the dynamic between humans and nature in their series, Watching Humans Watching. title: Human Behavior: An Exploration of People Watching image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta75a8fbd5ae1bb50/6987987cf887dc3ed9e8b545/inka_and_niclas_01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Human Behavior: An Exploration of People Watching by [Alexander Ho](/author/alexander-ho/) ## Alexander Ho Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 25, 2011 6:00 PM CUT  Watching Humans Watching XVII, 2008 Watching Humans Watching XVII, 2008Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström by [Alexander Ho](/author/alexander-ho/) ## Alexander Ho Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 25, 2011 6:00 PM CUT The scope of humankind’s relationship with nature is the subject of a new exhibition by photographers Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström, on display from Nov. 5 to Dec. 17 at the [Swedish Photography](http://www.swedishphotography.org/ "undefined") Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition is comprised of two series that share the same concept of human observation. For the first series, _Watching Humans Watching,_ the Stockholm-based duo spent the last four years capturing the dynamic between humans and nature by taking an objective approach to their subjects, much like the way landscape photographers document wild animals. Lindergård and Holmström had no interaction with the people they photographed. Each picture explores man’s disconnected relationship with nature, as if there were a wall between them and the environment. The images show people standing back, distant from the land, with some viewing nature through binoculars. The other series, _SAGA_, which was developed shortly after _Watching Humans Watching_, deviates from pure observation and explores the natural world as mythic, foreign place from a first-person perspective. Each picture captures the artists’ imagination of nature as make-believe wilderness, which they say was stirred by stories of the supernatural wild. “\[The photographs\]can be seen as small building stones: sets, scenes, props and characters from an unwritten story,” say Lindergård and Holmström. “A mood board for anyone creating a fairytale.” Together, the projects seek to present a full exploration of the relationship between people and nature. While _Watching Humans Watching_ aims to show the physical act of human observation, _SAGA_ offers the artists’ perspective on what is it that humans actually see and imagine when they watch nature. Watching Humans Watching _and_ SAGA _will also be published together in a book by_ [_Kehrer Verlag_](http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/en/recent%5Fpublications.html "undefined") _later this year._  Watching Humans Watching XVII, 2008 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XIII, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  SAGA VII, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XV, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XI, 2009 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching I, 2008 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XIV, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching II, 2008 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XII, 2009 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching XVI, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  SAGA IV, 2009 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  SAGA VI, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching VI, 2010 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching V, 2008 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström  Watching Humans Watching III, 2008 Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/16174/watching-humans-watching-inka-lindergard-and-niclas-holmstrom-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/16174/watching-humans-watching-inka-lindergard-and-niclas-holmstrom-3/"},"headline":"Human Behavior: An Exploration of People Watching","datePublished":"2011-10-25T18:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:03.602Z","description":"Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström capture the dynamic between humans and nature in their series, Watching Humans Watching.","url":"https://time.com/16174/watching-humans-watching-inka-lindergard-and-niclas-holmstrom-3/","keywords":["LightBox","Berlin","sweden","Out There"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta75a8fbd5ae1bb50/6987987cf887dc3ed9e8b545/inka_and_niclas_01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Ho","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexander-ho/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta75a8fbd5ae1bb50/6987987cf887dc3ed9e8b545/inka_and_niclas_01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"inka_and_niclas_01","caption":"Watching Humans Watching XVII, 2008","creditText":"Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/16174/watching-humans-watching-inka-lindergard-and-niclas-holmstrom-3/","name":"Human Behavior: An Exploration of People Watching"}}]}] ```