Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it’s pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you’re creating spaces where anything can happen.
Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world’s information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.
If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America’s vast intelligence infrastructure.
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy.
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.
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