I saw this photo, which shows hundreds of people filming the pope coming into power. I thought it was an interesting link to how we as humans take so many photos, and live life through this. This event will be captured millions of times on so many devices; reality is hyper-real, and also experience and memory will be formed through the eye of a lens.
This links to my idea about how people now create experience and memory through cameras. When people interact with the project, they want to take part in reality; and now, to take part in reality, you must be photographed, or photograph- to control it.
The photo is also an example of the way in which we are watched constantly. Other than surveillance cameras, we also are photographed and filmed constantly by others. Our own reality and image is taken and belongs to hundreds of other photographers; this links to both ideas; about the total relaxation of identity and image, we are no longer fearful of "possession", but it also suggests a strong anxiety that reality cannot exist without photography of it, and that we as selves cannot exist without photographic evidence.



This also relates to this photo, which shows a selfie by Obama, the Danish Prime minister and Cameron, at Mandela's funeral. Its a pretty funny photo- watching those who constantly construct very well thought out images of themselves- act in a way in which they interact with normal culture. It is also quite funny seeing them photograph as normal culture dictates.