Three Fates (2020)

“I was born in London and CCTV became as familiar to me as traffic signals. I went to a public school and a vast majority of the students attending were first generation immigrants living in council housing. A friend of mine posited that there was not a moment between the time that he first went to the bathroom in the morning and when he last locked his bedroom door that night, when he had not been recorded by a camera. And this is when the violence inherent in mass surveillance systems first showed itself to me. While I was aware of CCTV in my daily life, it had not been weaponized against my neighbourhood in the same way as it had most of my classmates, who were predominantly East African or Arab. For my project I wanted to go to wealthy neighborhoods and turn the lens around on the security cameras and other surveillance devices, so that the only images that the cameras could capture of me were just a mirror image.”