For the past 19 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring tens of thousands publicly accessible surveillance-cams located all over the world.
By downloading single images or taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 5 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and subjects.

He is the pioneer of a new kind of photography. Basically he understands the web as a camera - as his camera. The screen of his computer is the viewfinder, the mouse the trigger and the net-cameras around the world are his lenses. So this camera is huge.

 

 

KURT CAVIEZEL,
born in Chur, Switzerland,
lives and works in Zurich.

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