Plenty of revealing photography is done behind closed doors, but rarely are the doors as heavy as those used by Nick Veasey or the result quite as revealing.
Veasey is an x-ray photographer, a process that involves putting plenty between he and his subjects to delve deeply into them.
As he explains at his website:
This society of ours, consumed as it is by image, is also becoming increasingly controlled by security and surveillance. Take a flight, or go into a high profile courtroom and your belongings will be x-rayed. The post arriving in corporations and government departments has often been x-rayed. Security cameras track our every move. Mobile phone receptions place us at any given time. Information is key to the fight against whatever we are meant to be fighting against. To create art with equipment and technology designed to help big brother delve deeper, to use some of that fancy complicated gadgetry that helps remove the freedom and individuality in our lives, to use that apparatus to create beauty brings a smile to my face.
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