A Landscape Artist, Where The Land Is Filled With Markers Of Unceasing Digital Surveillance

Trevor Paglen, for the last two decades (yes, digital surveillance has been going on for that long and longer) “has been on a mission to photograph the unseen political geography of our times. His art tries to capture places that are not on any map – the secret air bases and offshore prisons from which the war on terror has been fought – as well as the networks of data collection and surveillance that now shape our democracies, the cables, spy satellites and artificial intelligences of the digital world.”