Gomma Photography Grant 2016
Surveillance Landscapes.
Photographer
Marcus DeSieno
Surveillance Landscapes.
14 Oct, 2022
Surveillance Landscapes is a series that interrogates how surveillance technology has changed our relationship and understanding of landscape and place in our increasingly intrusive electronic culture. I hack into surveillance cameras, public webcams, and CCTV feeds in a pursuit for the classical picturesque landscape, dislocating the visual product from its automated origins while searching for a conversation between land, borders, and power. I am currently working on producing a monograph of this work with a book publisher and the Gomma Grant will help immediately with production costs as I begin to work with an editor on layout and design.
About the photographer
Marcus DeSieno
Marcus DeSieno is a visual artist whose work interrogates institutions of power through the language of photography. His practice examines the enduring legacies of American empire and the ways visual technologies are used by the state as tools of surveillance and control.He is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of South Florida. DeSieno’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Aperture Foundation in New York, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki.His photographs have been featured in publications such as The British Journal of Photography, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, and The Boston Globe. His first monograph, No Man’s Land: Views from a Surveillance State, was published by Daylight Books.
