The picture was taken without anyone knowing an apparition may have been caught on film, seeing as how the shape only appeared in the picture AFTER it was taken. No one was aware of a ghostly presence or strange activity when the photo was snapped. The picture was taken in Kramer, Pa., circa 1977. It has received moderate attention in local newspapers in the past.

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Photographer Annie Ling’s work “A Floating Population” is on view through April 13 as part of an exhibition exploring “the connection between people and lived spaces within this neighborhood,” according to The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).

Photographer Annie Ling’s work “A Floating Population” is on view through Sunday as part of an exhibition exploring “the connection between people and lived spaces within this neighborhood” at The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York. MOCA says its mission is to celebrate the living history of the Chinese experience in America and encourages contemporary artists to tell those stories.

Curator Herb Tam said the project  “Chinatown: Beyond the Streets,” which includes two exhibitions, serves as an attempt to “look beyond the streets into the interior life of Chinatown, its domestic spaces and collective memory.” Ms. Ling’s photographs, spanning four years of work, allow viewers to access the “internal, private worlds” of the residents of Chinatown in a display of more than 80 imagescomposed of four sections: “81 Bowery,” “Shut-Ins,” “Tenements,” and “A Floating Population.”

Below is a selection from Ms. Ling’s photographs taken in New York’s Chinatown, on view through the weekend at MOCA.

 Workers share a late supper together with Chu Ben Jin in cubicle #4, at 81 Bowery.

From the series “81 Bowery,”2010

 The home of Fung Shok Yin, a homebound resident of a tenement building on Pell Street.
From the series “Shut In,” 2009

View from inside a bridal boutique after store hours.

From the series “A Floating Population,” 2012

 Most residents at the Bowery lodge are men. Often at the end of work days, meals would be shared in the hallway.

From the series “81 Bowery,” 2010

Inside the halls of a tenement building.

From the series “Tenements,” 2009

Residents burn money and goods made of joss paper to send to a deceased family member outside a makeshift Buddhist temple.

From the series “A Floating Population,” 2012

 Chang Yi Ang, 63, redeems cans at a recycling depot for 5 cents each, earning about $20-$30 per visit from recyclables he collects from trash picking.

From the series “A Floating Population,” 2011 

Photographs on the walls of the home of Fung Shok Yin, a homebound resident of a tenement building on Pell Street.
From the series “Shut In,” 2009

One of the last lodging houses in New York City, 81 Bowery has been home for more than a generation of immigrant Chinese laborers who work at construction sites and kitchens in Chinatown. Today, dozens of individuals are left sharing the fourth floor—each occupying a 64-square-foot cubicle.

From the series “81 Bowery,” 2010

 Ng Chiu Cheng, an 83-year-old widow, immigrated from Hong Kong to New York in 1959 and worked in a garment factory as a seamstress. Ng has lived in isolation for five years and is unable to leave her apartment on her own, struggling with grief and depression.

From the series “Shut In,” 2009

Chen Yin Zhen prepares to turn in for the night. Because the cubicles are without their own ceilings, there is very little privacy at the Bowery lodge.

From the series “81 Bowery,” 2010

Ms. Ling’s former residence on 22 James Street during reconstruction more than six months after a fatal fire destroyed the building and displaced more than 200 individuals, including the artist herself, in February 2009.

From the series “Tenements,” 2009

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