Image Reproduction

Image Reproduction is a body of work developed from online images, digital platforms, and publicly accessible visual records. I collect material from Google Street View, social media, traffic-management platforms, news screenshots, and online group photographs, then reorganise it through cropping, stitching, classification, layering, reconstruction, and sequencing. Images originally produced for navigation, communication, administration, or personal documentation are placed within new visual and conceptual structures.

The series includes Chinese People in Google Street View, The Hollow of Google Street View, Completing the Hollow of Google Street View, Screenshots from a Traffic Police Reporting Platform, Screenshots of Screenshots, Searching for Women in Online Group Photographs, and People Who Look Like Me. These works examine figures accidentally captured by digital maps, areas that technological systems fail to represent, accident images circulated through administrative platforms, repeated layers of digital reproduction, and the position of the individual within collective imagery and algorithmic resemblance.

Most of these images have already become separated from their original photographers and contexts. Through platform compression, automatic blurring, screenshots, reposting, and repeated uploading, they are transformed into circulating visual fragments whose origins are increasingly difficult to trace. By bringing them into my work, I examine how images are selected, obscured, duplicated, and assigned new meanings within digital systems.

Looking itself becomes an operative method. I search for people in street-view imagery, identify gaps in digital maps, trace the presence of women within group photographs, and look for unfamiliar faces that resemble my own. Searching, enlarging, cropping, and sorting are both artistic procedures and reflections of how reality is increasingly encountered today: through partial images supplied by platforms, from which viewers construct interpretation and imagination.

The series considers the origins, ownership, and reliability of digital images, as well as how individuals are transformed by maps, platforms, surveillance systems, and algorithms into visual information that can be identified, circulated, or overlooked. As more of reality is recorded, absence, distortion, and misrecognition have also become integral to contemporary visual experience.