The faces of Chatroulette, frozen in time

Robbie Brannigan's haunting portraits of his Chatroulette partners tell silent stories of love and loneliness on the internet

"Connected to Somebody"
(Image credit: Robbie Brannigan)

Logging into Chatroulette is like a game — you huddle around the computer screen, alone or with friends, press a button, and wait for a face (or, often, a more R-rated body part) to pop into frame. It's meant to be somewhat anonymous, and fleeting. You can exit the realities you enter at any time, simply clicking "next" to move on to another world. But who are the people whose lives we pass through?

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Sharon Weissburg was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island and is studying Italian literature and American history at Boston University. Follow her @thekidette.