Sophie Calle’s project Suite Venitienne focused on following a man around the streets of Venice. This was when she met a man, at a party who said he was moving to Venice, so she moved to Venice and there, she began to follow him. Calle documented her attempts at following the man. She phoned hundreds of hotels, even visited the police station, to find out where it was that he was staying, and persuaded a woman who lived opposite to let her photograph him from her window. As I am doing a project on surveillance I thought that her work was relevant to look into as it shows surveillance in a literal sense of how she was closely observing the man and documenting his movements. 

Arnau Blanch is another photographer that I have found an interest in once coming across. He is a Spanish photographer who’s work primarily consists of stark black-and-white images. The way in which his photos are take with harsh lighting is something which i believe gives a very haunting aesthetic like that of a discomforting dream or even a nightmare.  The way in which he portrays human figures within these photographs is something which i believe is very striking as you are immediately drawn to the whole figure.

After looking into the work of both Calle and Blanch I wanted to produce a set of images that showed influence from the styles of both of their work, whilst clearly exploring the theme of surveillance. Here are some of the outcomes which I ended up producing…

Then experimenting with colour…