After the revelation that the UK is now the most 'watched' nation on the globe the Tate Moderns first ever curator of photography has choosen to critique this growing invasion of privacy in Sandra Phillips exhibition 'Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera'.
The collection covers 150 years of photography from a variety of sources, the purpose of the exhibition being that instead of just showing you the images of CCTV cameras pointed at you, it also attempts to show the images taken. Phillips does this by collecting paparazzi shots, police records, reconnaissance images and contrasts them with photographers images such as Nan Goldin, Sophie Calle and Sophie Ristelhueber.
There are over 250 images from the late 19th century to the present day and not all have been taken with the subjects knowledge. One of the more interesting concepts of the exhibition being by the photographer Shizuka Yokomizo who sent letters to strangers asking them to stand alone in their living rooms for a specified ten minute period of time when she would photograph them from outside.
The exhibition runs at the Tate Modern until the 3rd of October, when it will travel to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
