Sophie Calle is a French artist who works with photographs and performances, placing herself in situations almost as if she and the people she encounters were fictional. She has been called a detective and a voyeur and her pieces involve serious investigations as well as natural curiosity.
Sophie Calle started to follow random people and started to take photographs and write notes about her subjects. Her photographs are displayed with the notes she wrote to go along with each picture. Her pieces tend to display an intimacy between herself and her subjects (as well as the viewers and her subjects) that the subjects are usually not aware they are participating in.
Suite Venitienne, 1980
Is one of her first series of voyeuristic style. She follows a man she met at a party from Paris to Venice and documents his movements, creating a diary of photographs and texts.
She works on other projects such as Hotel (1983) - she works as a chambermaid in a hotel and investigates lives of strangers staying at the hotel.
The Address Book (1983) - this piece was created based on an address book that Calle found, she contacted people in address book and asked them about it's owner, she wanted to create a portrait of this man she never met.
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