Kurt Caviezel – photographer

“Nowadays, I describe the internet as one big camera. The millions of webcams that are scattered all over the world, are its lenses. So now I have a camera with millions of lenses and see what images the cameras deliver.”

„I would maybe describe myself as a curator, something along these lines, so I collect the pictures, take my daily walk in the internet. You have to be in the right place at the right time, to capture exactly this insect that has landed on the lens. A second later it’s gone.”

“There really is no place, or no sphere of life that is not illuminated by a camera somewhere in the world. That’s what is fascinating the farther away you are from people, the closer you are to them visually, in this way of working. You could hardly to that with a conventional camera.”

“Which of course raises many questions, legal questions, is this permitted? Who owns these pictures? And I think legally it is a grey area. As far as I know there is no clear precedent, whether this is permitted or not. So I just do it. Let’s see what may happen.”