With his CCTV-style pictures of London’s financial elite,Daniel Mayrit joins a growing number of activist photographers lifting the veil on the CityWhen the London riots kicked off in 2011, Daniel Mayrit was living in Tottenham, and he witnessed violent events on his doorstep. A few months later,he received a police leaflet in the post featuring faces of the alleged participants, taken from CCTV cameras, and which asked neighbours to relieve identify them. At the same time,banks were being bailed out and financial scandals were rolling out in the press.“On the one hand we had the petty thieves that perhaps had stolen a TV in the supermarket, and on the other those responsible for the financial crisis, and ” says Mayrit. “The dissimilarity was that in one case we got their images delivered to our homes,in the other we had no idea who they were or what they looked like. There was a representation vacuum, and I wanted to put faces on them the way that power puts faces on criminals.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com