I wish you were here (Only 40 copies)

Eduardo Serafim
I wish you were here (Only 40 copies)

Photographs: Eduardo Serafim

Publisher: Self-published

96 pages

Year: 2011

Price: 220 €

Comments: Hardcover. Risograph printing. 255 x 190 mm. Text in english and in french. Riso colors printing. Limited edition of 40 numbered and signed copies. Copy in very good condition other than a small stain on back cover.

I Wish you were here explores the notion of surveillance. Through this series, Eduardo Serafim works with the border between security and voyeurism, public and private space. This project exceeds the intrusiveness that is normally found in these kinds of images. The images are taken from public spaces such as offices, hospitals, construction sites, and also within the privacy of people's homes. As though he is in a control tower, Serafim accesses other's lives creating postcards and mails them off to unsuspecting recipients, as a souvenir of a visit that never happened. He creates a tension between the most simple photographic representations and the weight that these images induce. The interest of this project is to go deeper into a current

problem: how much are our lives are accessible by these new technologies? How disconnected are we from our privacy?