I recently went to ‘Exposed’ at Tate Modern. This well curated exhibition is full of works that explore themes of voyeurism and surveillance. The show gave me the opportunity to see some works that I had been admiring in magazines and publications for a while. Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series ‘The Park’, for example, contains photographs that have been mentioned and printed in numerous publications. To see these photographs up in the Tate was quite a thrill. The photographs are shot on infrared film in a Tokyo park at night. The content of these night photos are intriguing, bewildering, shocking and mesmerising; as you find yourself entering into a bizarre cycle of seedy voyeurism… watching watchers watching. …
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