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GABRIEL JONES' PHOTOS OFFER A NEW TYPE OF VOYEURISM

Article by Emily Gosling for Creative Review Magazine, London

11/02/2022

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"Photography has a longstanding fascination with unposed subjects: Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ‘decisive moment’ hinges entirely on the candid; while some of our most famous living photographers have made a career out of snapping spontaneity — Martin Parr, Nan Goldin (to some extent), and Bruce Gilden, to name a few.

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But Canadian photographer Gabriel Jones has taken things one step further by making images that celebrate the oblivious people lurking in the background of a staged image, like a more conceptually rigorous version of pretending to take a selfie because a celebrity happens to be standing behind you, painfully aware of exactly what you’re doing. (...)"