Good afternoon Sunday blog readers,
Yesterday I attended an exhibition at the famous Tate Modern. 'Exposed' presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers.
The exhibition explored the idea of photography without permission touching on iconic and taboo subjects. It was deeper than I had expected, by capturing photos of people without them realising allows the true atmosphere of that particular moment to shine through, capturing true emotions within the photograph, the exhibition even hosts one room to moments of suicide attempts, and sadly successes.
What I particularly find interesting is our fasnication with other's private lives, reminding me of why Big Brother was such a phenomena and why people often spend hours on social networking sites. As a society we are obsessed with watching others, finding out about their lives and comparing our lives to theirs.
The exhibition also made me think about the concept of privacy in our current society. With expansion of the Internet and social networking sites privacy is an issue that has caused many debates, especially Facebook privacy. We constantly expose our lives to anyone who will listen or look at our pictures. Everything and anything is acceptable. I can find out what Joe Bloggs was doing last night, who he was with and his location, with the help of the recent Facebook places launch.
The exhibition also touched on surveillance. The UK is one of the most surveyed countries in the world, with technology constantly being updated allowing us to find new ways to have a glimpse of the lives of others.
All in all, a brilliant day out that I would recommend before it ends next weekend, it questions many things that are so relevant in our current climate and gave me real food for thought. Go along and see what you think for yourself.
Casey
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