Intrusion/Voyeurism

After briefly touching on the idea of an intrusion of personal space, i wanted to look at this in more detail, and perhaps look at the idea of voyeurism.

Voyeur - 'A person who derives sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point.'

I came across this series of images called Peephole, by photographer Jorge Vera...



The photographer has used a fish eye lens as to create the impression of a peephole.








Personally, i think that creating a peephole in this fashion has not been very effective as it blatantly looks like a fish eye lens. However, i do like some of the outcomes he has produced especially the bottom two here. Despite the fact that the people in the shots are aware of the photographer, i still think they work well as an intrusion on privacy and their personal spaces.

These are very useful to my research, and experimenting with peephole photography could be interesting. It could be interesting to take a more voyeuristic approach to it, so as to really view a personal space.