This is an interactive installation work that is based on printed photography, web camera and TV monitors. The exhibition space is 12m x 5m x 2.8m high, with 4 walls and no windows.

This work is mainly discuss about in the modern surveillance society, we are forced to see and be seen, like to be put on a giant stage and perform to match others expectation. Also the fundamental system of photography, when you look at  a picture, the picture is always looking back.

They were three part of this work.

First, the “mountain of faces”.

A huge pile of all the portrait photography I’ve been taking all over the world. sometimes I was not aiming for the person but actually took a landscape photo , and the person inside Alphaze are looking directly to my camera but I realised after. All the people inside images are looking directly on the camera.

Second, The “forest of images”.

This part I hung  I covered the wall of this whole area with the snapshot I took. It was not about the content information inside the pictures, but refers to the act of repetitively seeing and shooting.

Last part, with two TV monitors placed in the middle of the space, between the mountain and the forest, face to face. 2 web cameras tight on the ceiling on each side. Whatever the angle you see through the screen, you can only see your own back in it. But watching and put yourself inside of the space, you are in the space and they become a part of it, you are also seeing and be seen by yourself.