"The Peeping Phone" - the private Public

"The public Secret" by Eric Berger

A time when people post even the most intimate details on social media, believing they are doing so only for a limited circle of friends, germinates an excellent breeding ground for a deliberately provocative exhibition of private snapshots of personal fetishes and desires taken with the mobile phone in the personal environment of the photo artist, mixed with voyeuristic scenes of street photography reminiscent of the character of surveillance cameras.

The contradiction of the "public secret" is similar to the access to private street photography. Smartphones enable surveillance-like shots and sceneries. The protagonists of these shots have no idea of the visualization of the moment, although others deliberately allow themselves to be staged without fathoming the scope of the publication consent. The smartphone as a peeping camera that is always with you!