The Seen Unseen
Forms of Disappearance
By Robert Levy
What does it mean to witness someone without truly seeing them? In this ongoing series, I explore identity through absence — moments where the human form is present, yet obscured. These are not portraits in the traditional sense. They are quiet studies in posture, shadow, and suggestion — expressions of self that arise through what is withheld.
Each image captures a different kind of disappearance — not an erasure, but a shift. A withdrawal into the symbolic, the poetic, the universal.