Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is a french conceptual artist and photographer. She captures human susceptibility, and examines intimacy and individuality as well as various types of stalking and surveillance. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. In Suite Venitienne , Sophie Calle followed a man she met at a party in Paris to Venice where she disguised herself and followed him around the city, photographing him. Calle’s surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as Henri B., includes black and white photographs which where taken on film. She also broke into the hotel by changing into a chamber maid and captured individuals hotel rooms to observe the guests.Calle conditions and recasts her own identity for that period of time. The documents/ evidence that result from these conceptual projects are presented as photographs and zines.