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August 3, 2009
This photo is so "meta" lens culture: A photo of a government-owned surveillance camera in front of a giant billboard photo of a baby's eye, with the billboard promoting the idea of photographing your kids with your mobile phone camera and sending them via the phone carrier's system to share with grandma and grandpa far away...
The photographer, David Dunnico, is just one of the fascinating people I met at the always stimulating photo festival and international portfolio review sessions at Rhubarb-Rhubarb in Birmingham UK. I met lots and lots of interesting people, and I'll report back on many more of my findings and delightful discoveries over the next few days and weeks.
In the meantime, check out Dunnico's Flickr photostream of all things CCTV in the UK, plus his website. Dunnico's note about this photo: "Council owned camera and advertising hoarding for the mobile phone network 3. Lever Street, Manchester. This was the first photograph I took in this series."
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Hi Jim, it was great to meet you too.
Thanks for the mention – I'm glad to say it's meant a lot more people are looking at the flickr stream and hopefully thinking about the subject more.
If people want to know more about the issues around cctv – which I think is about a lot more than 'Big Brother is watching you' (I'd say it was actually your supermarket who's doing most of the watching) then I hope you don't mind me posting a link to a downloadable pdf magazine I've put together:
www.tinyurl.com/cctv-magazine
Hopefully people will find it funny and interesting.
If people are click-happy, there's also my blog at:
http://daviddunnico.wordpress.com/
Thanks once again, especially for the Lens Culture site.
Yes, I always thought the cameras in retail stores were to prevent shoplifting, but after talking with you, I realize that they are also perhaps more useful to marketing experts to monitor the behavior and habits of shoppers so they can redesign the displays and flows of their retail stores to maximize sales. Creepy.