Potentially Suspicious

year:	2015
with:	Moritz Fuhrmann (Editorial Design)

Experimental research in the mutating perception of suspects and threats. The essay and images are based on a journey to high security places in London and encounters along the way.

Intro text containing 27% of predetermined keywords of the search algorithm of the NSA email surveillance program.

Followed by a security guard into a back alley in Vauxhall.

„If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?", We say to ourselves in collective reassurance. In this crowd we remain anonymous.

The moment you will realize that your behaviour and thoughts became suspicious, when you became a threat –then – it might be too late. It is dangerous to think ‚But, who cares about me?‘ We are all already suspects – Defined by the constant existence of an undefinable threat, we are all being monitored, categorized and filtered through programmed algorithms, replacing ethics. Technology makes it easier to monitor and record, to filter and select.“

Stop and Search ticket of the Metropolitan Police Service for taking photos of CCTV systems.

Photofit Portraits of potential suspects in London.

According to US security we all fit the definitions of terrorists. Did you repetitively touch your face? Did you ever think about conspiracy theory? Do you talk about individual liberties? Do you want to make the world a better place? Yes, you are suspicious!

On the MI5 website it is stated: ‚Terrorists may be behaving differently to how you‘ve known them to behave in the past.‘

List of predetermined keywords of the search algorithm of the NSA email surveillance program.

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