From Solo Photo Book Month (via @doctorow):
“Snitchtown” is an essay by Cory Doctorow that first appeared in Forbes.com in June 2007. This SoFoBoMo project is an attempt to illustrate that essay with photographs of some of the 4.2 million CCTV cameras currently estimated to be active in Britain.
Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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I was very nervous about going out and taking these photographs – evidence of the extent to which we have been conditioned not to notice CCTV cameras in the UK[1]. Doing so felt like a small reclamation of civic space. Thank you for bringing these photographs (and the excellent essay that they run alongside) to the attention of your readers.
[1] Srsly – we're supposed to consider “looking at a CCTV camera” as anti-social behaviour now: http://is.gd/1i5M6