Putin’s Prison
Mishka Henner
£10.00
Putin's Prison presents a series of screen captures taken from unsecured security cameras across Russia between 3-4 April 2022, on the 40th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Many of these images show barriers, fences, corridors, stairwells, entrances, shop interiors, and parks in Russian cities and suburbs. In some,... Read More
Putin's Prison presents a series of screen captures taken from unsecured security cameras across Russia between 3-4 April 2022, on the 40th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Many of these images show barriers, fences, corridors, stairwells, entrances, shop interiors, and parks in Russian cities and suburbs. In some, these banal views are punctured by hackers' replacement of standard data with anti-war, anti-Putin, and pro-Ukrainian slogans.
The inclusion of counter-narrative text to the surveillance image is an ingenious attempt to subvert the camera's ability to enforce State control over its citizens.
Many of these images show barriers, fences, corridors, stairwells, entrances, shop interiors, and parks in Russian cities and suburbs. In some, these banal views are punctured by hackers' replacement of standard data with anti-war, anti-Putin, and pro-Ukrainian slogans.
The inclusion of counter-narrative text to the surveillance image is an ingenious attempt to subvert the camera's ability to enforce State control over its citizens.