All Cameras Are Police Cameras
Great essay by James Bridle, about the advances in locking down public space.
Surveillance images are all “before” images, in the sense of “before and after”. The “after” might be anything: an earthquake, a riot, a protest, a war. Any system reliant on flow, which is all networks from vehicle traffic to commercial supply to video feeds to the internet itself, view disruptions within the same negative moral context. Surveillance images attain the status of evidence for unknown crimes the moment they are created, and merely await the identification of the moment they were created for. Automated imagery criminalises its subject.
Read on for what happened just walking down the streets of London documenting security cameras.
http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/
I wonder what happened to the imagery here? Strangely drained of colour and, presumably, all meta data.