anonymised
taking candid photos of people in the age of cctv, smartphones, the internet & AI is a very different thing to before. with the outreach of media today, and with the recycling of content across the internet, if you are out in public it is never theoretically impossible for your face to be seen far across the world. what's more, there has never been such a greater abundance of cameras. the ethics of capturing someone without their consent is one that is broken all the time. we are rarely allowed to be anonymised.
these photos attempt to find a respectable balance in this question, avoiding identifiable features whilst still capturing people in their essence.
a lot of the time, when you're not trying, people look really cool. this series is my evidence for that.
photos from 2016 - 2025
photo featured in f-stop magazine Issue #119: https://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html#gallery-291
