Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Safe Distance
This photograph is in the current exhibition at the
Griffin Museum of Photography's
Juried by Aline Smithson
Exhibition to August 31, 2014
No Safe Distance: "These photographs address my interest in photography without permission. Today we live in a post-privacy world, an image-obsessed society where cameras are everywhere. With or without our knowledge, we are being photographed countless times a day. When I make these images, I am separated from my subjects by glass store windows. Having a camera with a big lens pointed by an unknown person outside the store creates a moment of sudden awareness of something unexpected. Reactions are varied."
"By cropping and enlarging the faces, which are often distorted by the window's reflections, and by removing the context, there is a certain ambiguity created. The images can reference mug shots, identity cards, Facebook friends, missing persons, even paparazzi celebrity captures. More closely they resemble surveillance photos, which is what they really are. They are meant to challenge our expectations of anonymity and privacy."
– Sheri Lynn Behr
Work from this series was used to receive a 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship for Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
"By cropping and enlarging the faces, which are often distorted by the window's reflections, and by removing the context, there is a certain ambiguity created. The images can reference mug shots, identity cards, Facebook friends, missing persons, even paparazzi celebrity captures. More closely they resemble surveillance photos, which is what they really are. They are meant to challenge our expectations of anonymity and privacy."
– Sheri Lynn Behr
Work from this series was used to receive a 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship for Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You
Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series Watching You
Watching You: "The camera portraits of Watching You are taken with my iPhone. While the quality of the images is acceptable, they are often grainy and soft. The more I see surveillance footage on the news, the more odd and abstract the images appear. I want to give these photographs a similar distance from reality." read more here
Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where
Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr, from the series No Matter Where
No Matter Where: "We know that cameras are everywhere. We try to avoid people pointing smartphones and other hand-held cameras at us as we walk down the street, but are we conscious of all the cameras lurking above, hiding in plain sight? We know we’re being watched, even in the most benign locations, yet as we become more accustomed to the presence of surveillance cameras, we stop paying attention." read more here
Catalog Back Cover Photograph © Sheri Lynn Behr,
from the series No Safe Distance
Griffin Museum of Photography's
Juried by Aline Smithson
Exhibition to August 31, 2014
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