Jon Rafman, Nine Eyes of Google Street View

By isolating these “found” images and presenting them as photographs, Jon Rafman (@jonrafman) reframes an impersonal surveillance/archive tool into human-centered storytelling. The project probes questions of authorship (who “made” the image), privacy and surveillance, and how meaning emerges from machine-made imagery. Overall, Rafman uses Street View to reveal the uncanny, accidental drama of everyday life…