TOBIAS ZIELONY

Trona

'Lighter'

In 2008, Berlin based photographer Tobias Zielony took a trip to Trona, Los Angeles, a place declared the '"armpit of America" by its own inhabitants.

Populated chiefly by crystal meth addicts, the impoverished desert land provides a clientele that Water White could only dream of, and fitted in perfectly with Zielony's devotion to photographing poor, marginalized groups in society. 

How not to be seen:

A fucking didactic educational .mov file

Hito Steyerl’s latest installation takes the form of an instructional video, which provides a step by step guide on how the viewer can become ‘invisible’, in an age of digital image proliferation.

In the wake of recent revelations on the activities of the NSA and global intelligence operations, the piece strikes as particularly poignant, and poses the question, can we make ourselves invisible, and if so, is it a good thing?