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Photographer Melissa O’Shaughnessy (the anonymous or semi-anonymous curator behind the project) treated these men less like jokes and more like still lifes. The lighting is often natural, brutal, and honest. A drool stain on a white collar. A furrow in a brow that remains even in sleep. A hand still gripping a metro card.

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Critics argue that consent cannot be retroactive. A man asleep after a 14-hour shift cannot agree to have his image distributed globally. Proponents counter that street photography has always operated this way, and that the sleeping subject, by virtue of being in public, has implicitly accepted the risk of being observed. sleepingmen com

Next time you see a man asleep with his mouth open on the L train, don’t wake him. He needs the two minutes more than you need the seat. A furrow in a brow that remains even in sleep