Your government is watching you. All. The. Time. Also available as a print here
CCTVs are all pervasive now, especially in the UK. 1984 was only 20 years too late. Print available here
My entry for the London Calling challenge. I found this difficult as I’ve never been to London to get a real ‘feel’ for the place, but here’s my two-cents worth: I have given a big nod towards graffiti/street art with the general style of the piece (line work, spray marks and drips) the London skyline gets a look in I couldn’t resist the CCTV camera robot (paranoid android?) with London having over 100 000 cameras throughout the city and finally I’ve included a large rain cloud in reference to the grey, overcast and generally miserable weather. I can’t decide on a colour – according to the challenge we should have one colour option for the shirt – so feel free to let me know what colour you think works best :) Detail: /
Who’s watching the watchers? / There are up to 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain – about one for every 14 people… / London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million. But analysis of the publicly funded spy network, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime. In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average.
Are multiple overlapping CCTV Cameras getting you down? Does the thought of not just stereo 3-D capture of you walking down a perfectly normal street in daylight, but three if not more multiple freaking angles increasingly annoy you? Are you willing to let even more civil liberties slide by? Damnit, just swallow this capsule and let yourself be microchipped already. It’ll solve a lot of problems, and if nothing else a lot of people who are paid to monitor the things will be able to get some sunlight again. Remember : if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?
Take two of this t-shirt. Thanks to those who gave me input!
A poster version of the t-shirt The Kiss
G2050 / cute but sinister surveillance robot
When we stop caring we’ve lost the battle.
The buyers booth photo: / / . / / . / / . /
Now GONE!! Painted over – now this is just a white wall.
A bit of a rework of an image that was originally created as part of a quadtych series – “Vanishing Point (#’s1-4)” – entered into the Nikon Summer Salon back in 2004 – (now called the Kodak Salon). Was beside myself – read; totally friggin stoked! when the series was awarded – “Best Digital Photomedia Work” The Kodak Salon is now Australia’s largest open entry photomedia exhibition held at The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Move along. Move along…. A less-political work incorporating the proliferation of CCTV cameras in London than others I could work on…
shot by cctv: smile you’re on camera britain is monitored by 4 million CCTV (closed circuit television) cameras, making it the most watched nation in the world. there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. if you live in london you are likely to be on cameras 300 times a day.
CCTV – “Her USB 2.0 was the first thing that caught my lens, she is so sexy!” / Webcam – “They say size doesn’t matter…they’re wrong!” /
Hungerford Bridge, London, May 2009 cctv © 2009 Urban Umbra
I think I’m being watched… Actually, I’m starting to think I may have to make a decision : should I try to deliberately put more items around themes onto redbubble, or do I continue to attempt to post photos that are all quite different, (or do they all form a certain ‘style’ anyway?). Anyway, CCTV cameras are fairly ubiquitous in my environment, so if anything could become the basis of a recurring theme, they would be it
CCTV by OMA, Beijing during Olympics 2008 / P1020258-59panospbsp All Rights Reserved © hinting ISO 100 / F6.3 / 1/400
do todays social habits make you feel safer? / . / is there someone watching you? / . / is privacy a sacrifice? / . / (oil / acrylic mix on canvas) / . /
The result of me playing around with a photo took yesterday of a sign in my town…I then added “spray paint” using brushes I downloaded for Photoshop CS…aaand then added the text. Any good?
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