“Your recent master class on image hacking in Birmingham, UK, opened up lots of ideas around impossible authorship, mass appropriation and the potential for exploitation that digital media brings. It tracked live flights across the sky and watched container ships sail real-time in the Gulf, zoomed in on Iranian nuclear plants and found gold and diamond mines in Australia and Peru. Perhaps the most terrifying thing was just how easy it was to access this kind of information on the Internet…”

Artist Mishka Henner discusses his practice and thoughts around contemporary image making via Newfotoscapes.org.

Levelland Oil and Gas Field #2
Mishka Henner (2015)
Source: Flickr
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0