Woo now they can see everything...

This is pulled right of stuff, click to jump straight to the article.
They want to install cctv cameras around Queenstowns waterways in order to crack down on boaties braking the rules, and back up accusations with "...solid video proof..."
I just thought this was the best quote from Andy Brinsley the Director of Kawarau Jet boating operations:
"The [harbormaster] can't be everywhere simultaneously."


I just thought that was a great line. Is that what surveillance systems are trying to acheive? The idea that they can be everywhere simultaneously>? watching all from a point of power? Shit, does this sound Orwellian to anybody else? Not to mention the fact that lakes and rivers are right in that gray zone that may, with measures like this flick over into that realm of private and controlled space....

Some more things...haha i almost wrote thugs

I am really keen to create a performative piece that is based on some of the ideals in the previous post but i am also interested in combining it with the work myslef and Mishca Rhys Hill are doing and bring into it a surveillance aspect. Or even just an aspect of control and security. I like this concept and i would like to do something in a place where i know i would be under some sort surveillance. So more work to come on this...

In the mean time here ia another series that is germinating as an idea at the moment. The spaces where stumbled across, no planning as with the poses, positions. All shot with Canon G9 on self timer.

After Rachel's very informative comment yesterday i now understand more what Denis Darzacq is trying to communicate in his works. The low saturation of the image, the placement of the people in front of such blank, urban spaces is a comment on the migrant population in France and the way in which the second generation of migrants has become even more displaced. They cannot return to their 'homeland' but they cannot call their new country home...

I think the works a very resonant with this feeling of displacement once this idea is unlocked to the viewer...

My work is approaching a similar idea but from a very different perspective. I am aiming to create an ambiguity in the mind of the viewer. Something that will force the viewer to question what it is that they are seeing. My ideas need more refining in this way but below are another group of test shots....and ideas to pursue...

Current Work

ISO 1000//F6.3//1600th

ISO 320//F.5.6//640th

Uncropped//ISO 1000//F 56.3//2500th