Mishka Henner (born 1976 in Brussels, Belgium) is an artist living and working in Manchester, England. His work has featured in several surveys of contemporary artists working with photography in the internet age. He has been described by some as a modern-day Duchamp for his appropriation of image-rich technologies including Google Earth, Google Street View, and YouTube, and for his adoption of print-on-demand as a means to bypass traditional publishing models.
Although he trained as a documentary photographer, Henner, 37, doesn’t “take” photos – he finds them. Two years ago he was nominated for the Deutsche Borse photography prize for a survey of prostitution sites made using images found on Google Street View. The pictures in his latest series, Beef and Oil, began as satellite images found on the internet of either oilfields or mass cattle-rearing operations known as feedlots, located across Kansas, Texas and California. They appear in an exhibition of Henner’s work opening in London this week, and have been nominated for this year’s Prix Pictet, the international award for photography on the theme of sustainability.
No Man's Land represents isolated women occupying the margins of southern European environments. Shot entirely with Google Street View, Henner's method of online intelligence-gathering results in an unsettling reflection on surveillance, voyeurism and the contemporary landscape.
http://www.mishkahenner.com (Date Accessed 22/03/15)
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10813540/Mishka-Henner-a-Duchamp-for-our-times.htm
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