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Artist Reveals Instagrammers’ Real Stories With Video Surveillance

An artist’s video shows the backstory behind Instagram influencers’ photographs through open street camera footage, and highlights the pervasiveness of urban surveillance.

Dries Depoorter’s video project shows the power of urban surveillance.

Dries Depoorter’s video project shows the power of urban surveillance.

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Among a sea of people, a man in a leather jacket poses in front of a fire-engine red storefront. He knows that when he posts the picture on Instagram, hundreds of thousands of followers can see it. But he may not realize that even when he isn’t in front of the camera, he is being watched.