{"id":106538,"date":"2025-02-24T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/from-idyllic-photos-to-the-surveillance-state\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:06:33","slug":"from-idyllic-photos-to-the-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=106538","title":{"rendered":"From Idyllic Photos to The Surveillance State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-83913\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_83912\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83912\" class=\"size-full-width-ratio wp-image-83912\" src=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305-640x473.jpg\" alt=\"Image by Andy Adams. via: flakphoto instagram.\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305-640x473.jpg 640w, http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305-768x568.jpg 768w, http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305-1024x757.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/artfcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2305.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-83912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Andy Adams. via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/flakphoto\">FlakPhoto<\/a> instagram.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Explain Me with Andy Adams of Flak Photo: From Idyllic Photos to The Surveillance State\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/pi9p9-f12351?from=usersite&amp;skin=1&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Explain Me we talk to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyadamsphoto.com\/\">Andy Adams<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/flakphoto\">@FlakPhoto<\/a> on instagram)\u00a0a culture producer, and long time digital director. Andy is the founder of\u00a0<a title=\"FlakPhoto Projects\" href=\"http:\/\/flakphoto.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FlakPhoto Projects<\/a>, an international community of photographers that operates in a parallel path to the one Powhida and Johnson come from\u2014the New York based studio and museum world. Andy, William, and Paddy began working online around the same time\u20142003-2005, so we start our conversation there. We track through the exuberance and possibility we saw online in the early aughts, the economic collapse of the late aughts, and fraught political environment we\u2019re now navigating. Subjects include: The signature FlakPhoto style, the ethics of documentary photography, and the the postponed Guston show at the Tate.<\/p>\n<p>References and reading:<\/p>\n<p>Listen to us on itunes podcasts, spotify, and stitcher. Support us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/43472226\">patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post_tags\">Tagged as:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/tag\/andy-adams\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow\">Andy Adams<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/tag\/explain-me\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow\">Explain Me<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/tag\/flak-photo\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow\">Flak Photo<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/tag\/podcast\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow\">Podcast<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/artfcity.com\/tag\/william-powhida\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow\">William Powhida<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=388625927877167\";\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=388625927877167&version=v2.0\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=388625927877167\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Andy Adams. via: FlakPhoto instagram. In this episode of Explain Me we talk to\u00a0Andy Adams\u00a0(@FlakPhoto on instagram)\u00a0a culture producer, and long time digital director. Andy is the founder of\u00a0FlakPhoto Projects, an international community of photographers that operates in a parallel path to the one Powhida and Johnson come from\u2014the New York based studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[48590,48591,48592,48594,9450,6252,5296,4379,48593],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-106538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-andy-adams","tag-explain-me","tag-flak-photo","tag-idyllic","tag-photos","tag-podcast","tag-state","tag-surveillance","tag-william-powhida"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Idyllic Photos to The Surveillance State - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=106538\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Idyllic Photos to The Surveillance State - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image by Andy Adams. via: FlakPhoto instagram. 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