Enemy of the State Trailer

This is a movie where you can see the extent of the US governments power to evesdrop upon its country.

Restaurant Employees

Markus Hartel- street photography

Have used not only Renaldi to influence the 'street photography' aspect of my project. Hartel's black and white 35mm images are beautiful, I still want to use medium format, I;ve been using mainly colour but will experiment with black and white. Another bonus of using B+W is i can process the film myself.

Ascension Island

I wrote to Simon Norfolk following his talk, I wanted to know how he got to the places he photographed because my project follows similar trends to his own. In his reply he gave me flight details of certain island where much of his work is shot. Its called Ascension Island. The US and British Air forces both have relay stations, among other facilities there. It is a place I'm interested in photographing, however very expensive to get flights. It is something I may pursue for a personal project at a later date.

Simon Norfolk- Acension Island:The Panopticon

I went to Simon Norfolk's talk in Derby, It bought to my attention the work he's done on the US military and the investigation into surveillance. He's used a documentary approach which I may adopt.





This facility is truely amazing. They can literally listen to your phone calls, read information on your computers. If a flagged word comes up within these things, they can bring up a higher level of analysis, which can see your online purchases, where you've parked your car, any loyality cards you have, credit cards. Obviously personal information- where you live/lived, where you work etc

Test shoot

I've started to do some street photography. I've used two different approaches; Asking the subject if they can be photographed, and photographing the subject without their knowledge. Comparing the two different types of survaillence.

Richard Renaldi

I've been looking at Renaldi's work. both 'figure and ground' and 'touching strangers' both really interesting looking features. Both are about obversation of people.