Panopticon Project

For this project, I created three sets of images that focused on three different types of surveillance.  The first set is intended to focus on being watched.  The point of the photographs is to suggest that there are few places that you can go to (in Appleton, at least) where you can be sure nobody is watching you.  Whether it is from a window, a security camera, or just because you are in a public area, your actions are no longer private!

How many people have been caught on this camera without
ever realizing it?

The second set focuses on a more passive type of surveillance that I am particularly fond of.  This is the type of surveillance that comes from just sitting and watching.  There is no intent to discover anything or to monitor anybody's behavior.  The idea is simply to look and see what you see.  I don't even really like to think of it as surveillance.  It seems to passive to accept that label.

What better activity?

The third set of images is based on the idea that wherever we go in our daily lives, we cannot escape from the concept of time.  Not only is it, for obvious reasons, a concept that defines much of what we do, but it is nearly impossible to even walk down the street without constantly being reminded of what the exact time is.  In a setting such as Appleton, there seem to be clocks on nearly every block, not to mention the large amount of appliances and objects that we use daily that also tell us the time.

This third set of images also serves to remind me not to
procrastinate in the future.