Not Intended For explores the contradictions of digital representations of our physical environment. Through online mapping services and 360-degree panoramas, our supposed freedom of movement seems to have few limits. Services such as Google Street View are relentlessly expanding their datasets, and with them our digital space to move. However, not only Google defines this space. Governments and private actors also decide which areas of this digital world are accessible to us. Faces, for instance, can be blurred for privacy reasons, as can houses or government buildings. What is particularly striking, however, is the partial blurring of border regions and border crossings. In the immediate proximity of these border crossings, parts of our field of vision are repeatedly rendered unrecognizable.
The project seeks to transfer a selection of these blurred images into an aesthetic of contemporary landscape photography.