Thomas Ruff is a German photographer born in 1958 (5 years after Calle), he is an considerably conceptual individual of his craft. In his ‘Nacht’ series which he produced over 4 years from 1992 to 1996, Ruff blatantly explored the subject matter of surveillance, stating himself that these were his intentions of the project. In this series of photographs Ruff used his camera as tool of observation and documentation of night-time scenes of suburban and industrial areas in his home city of Dusseldorf.  He produced the images with the aesthetic qualities of a long-lens night-vision CCTV surveillance camera.

Here are some examples of the work which he produced for the ‘Nacht’ series…

The green tinted square format surveillance footage aesthetic is something which i wanted to reproduce as a response to the work of Ruff. Here is what I ended up producing in response…

I believe that this reflected the work of Thomas Ruff whilst being more specific to my own project style. Although I was satisfied with these I still wanted to add CCTV camera captions to the images in order to match the visual quality of my other images. Here is what I ended up with…