‘Audubon Mural Project: Photographs by Gail Albert Halaban’ Opens at Aperture Gallery

For 14 years, photographer Gail Albert Halaban has worked on a project called “Out My Window,” for which she took voyeuristic pictures of people in their houses through their windows in Paris, Italy, Istanbul — and New York, from the window of her own Manhattan home. She’d recently purchased her apartment — having moved to New York City from Los Angeles and given birth to her daughter the same weekend she signed the deed. She was a lost new mom in a sprawling, isolating city. “Out My Window” was an effort to combat loneliness.  But her latest work, the “Audubon Mural Project: Photographs by Gail Albert Halaban,” which opens at Aperture gallery tonight, flipped “Out My Window” and all that feeling of desolation on its head.  “I was actually incredibly surprised,” Halaban says over the phone. “I have to admit, when I was asked to photograph some pictures of walls, I thought I would be photographing the pictures on the walls. “But actually, I’m photographing how the pictures on the walls transform the community and the people around it.” A mural of the Western Bluebird and Rufous-crowned Sparrow featured in Gail Albert Halaban’s exhibition of the Audubon Mural Project.  Beginning in 2014, the Audubon Mural Project

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