Sophie Calle is a French photographer whose work investigates intimacy and identity. There is a voyeuristic nature to some of her images and it is said that she once followed a man from Paris to Venice photographing him without his knowledge all the while. She enjoys investigating the lives of others and turns herself into a private investigator to do this.
My favourite of Calle's work is the series 'The Hotel', where she obtains a job at a hotel in Venice and proceeds to photograph the contents of the room in between cleaning. She is giving a sense of identity to these people that even she has never met by exploring this deeply personal and intimate space of theirs. (All Photographs property of Sophie Calle)
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| Room 47 |
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| Room 28 |
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| Room 29 |
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| Room 44 |
And then of course there is the week she ate chromatic food each day, she was modeling herself after a character in a novel by Paul Auster, who was modeled after her.
Calle loves to experiment with her own life and the lives of others turning everything into art and I am left wondering what she will do next.
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