A new photography exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965, places the COVID-19 pandemic in the history of “people watching” and observes from a multiplicity of eyes how historical contexts have changed the implications of the activity over the past sixty years. By immersing the viewer in the observer's position, the exhibition allows the viewer to create their own stories of what they see and don’t see. To perhaps, discover that what they once thought were singular experiences are universal.