Final Major Project
Booker Skelding
Voyeuristic - Surveillance - Street Photography?
Michele Iverson - Surveillance Photographer
American Photography Instructor and film editor
This series of images are of people being photographed in their own homes without their knowledge.
The photographer Michele Iversen is driven by fear and adrenaline of wondering if she will be caught.
Night Surveillance Series
These images disturb me and stir up traumatic memories of watching the surveillance footage of me. How I was watched in my home and followed when I left my home. On one occasion the under cover surveillance operator asked me for directions in order to capture a close up of my face for evidence.
She Sees Your Every Move
While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission. At night she sits in her car and watches the warm glowing windows of strangers' homes waiting for the perfect shot.
Since 1995 Iversen has been collecting these images for her “Night Surveillance Series.” "I find my theater, you know the actual window," she explains, "and then the performance begins.” She's captured people binge eating, washing dishes, sleeping.
Iversen admits she feels uncomfortable watching her subjects — and wants her audience to be uncomfortable looking at her photographs as well. And yet she continues to make them: “They are like these beautiful tableaux to me, they tell a story — they show peoples lives.”
Produced by Studio 360's Jonathan Mitchell.
https://theurbanmermaid.blogspot.com/2016/02/surveillance-photographer.html
Safer to lock myself away
Surveillance or Street Photography?
The thought that I am being watched, never leaves me.
