LONDON I (EXPOSED)
PHOTOGRAPHS…
This is my ongoing project that deals with the issue of being seen in public and how Londoners react to their continued exposure.
London’s ever-present CCTV cameras make its population amongst the most watched on the planet. On the other hand, street photographers are increasingly looked at with suspicion by the general public, which attempts, more or less explicitly, to defend their personal privacy from the “indiscrete” eye of the camera.
In my photographs I capture persons whose faces, by will or pure chance, are most of times hidden.
An umbrella, a hand, a hat or even a camera interposes between me and the subjects, suggesting a game of hide and seek where it’s not always clear who’s hiding from whom. Is it the subject, reacting in defence of his/her privacy, or me, the photographer, forced to limit the operational space, who is trying to get away photographing in public without upsetting the ever-stronger self-consciousness of the general public?
The outcome is an unsettling, seemingly fragmentary picture of London. Nevertheless these photographs investigate its diversity, variety and unique assortment of people while keeping London’s specific mystery, anonymity and charming inscrutability.