Street Photography in the Age of Surveillance

Five photographers on making honest images when every face is already in a database.


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Street Photography in the Age of Surveillance

Street photography has always existed in a gray zone — public space, private faces. But what happens when every face is already in a database, when the question shifts from “can you photograph this?” to “does photographing it still mean anything?”

Five Perspectives

We asked five photographers — from Tokyo, Lagos, São Paulo, Berlin, and Hanoi — how their practice has changed. Their answers have almost nothing in common, except one thing: all of them still shoot on film.

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