Data Rush
2015

23 Aug - 11 Oct 2015

Data Rush

Hannes Hepp

Not So Alone – Lost in Chat Room (2012-2015)

Hannes Hepp’s photomontages portray the invisible, global, digital espionage activities of the NSA and other security forces, but also the continuous alienation and isolation of ordinary citizens in the virtual world. The portraits in the series come from public chat rooms, where the persons depicted tempt visitors with the prospect of more explicit sexual images so as to entice them to pay for ‘private time’. The viewer is therefore simultaneously a voyeur and an object of voyeurism. Just as the photographer may have been spied on by security forces whilst making the photomontages in his studio.

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Act of Faith
2007

16 Sep - 28 Oct 2007

Act of Faith

Hannes Hepp

Johannes Hepp

Johannes Hepp makes a systematic study of places where terrorists have been active. Sometimes days, sometimes years afterwards he visits cities where there have been bombings, gas attacks or suicide actions. His panoramic collages search for changes in the urban landscape. At the same time they show how life has once again returned to normal, despite the tragic events that took place there. In London Hepp photographed the four places where a day before a bomb had exploded in the public transit.

• THE DAYS AFTER (Great Britain, 2001-2005)

  Johannes Hepp makes a systematic study of places where terrorists have been active. Sometimes days, sometimes years afterwards he visits cities where there have been bombings, gas attacks or suicide actions. His panoramic collages search for changes in the urban landscape. At the same time they show how life has once again returned to normal, despite the tragic events that took place there. In London Hepp photographed the four places where a day before a bomb had exploded in the public transit.