The series by Sheri Lynn Behr was selected by Janice Monger, Director, Alice Austen House Museum during portfolios reviews organized by The New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP NY) on February 18th, 2015, in New York.
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 really 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.
For NoMatterWhere, I photograph streets, buildings and walls, pointing my camera at the cameras that are watching me, some more noticeable than others. While I certainly believe that Big Brother can be useful in some cases, I also think we need to be more aware of the scope of surveillance in our daily lives-and how it impacts our privacy. I make these photographs to raise questions that come from the claustrophobic sense of being constantly observed, no matter where we find ourselves.
Sheri Lynn Behr is a New York City-based photographer whose most recent work deals with photography without permission and our surveillance society. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and have appeared in American and international publications. In 2012 she received a Fellowship in Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
