Mishka Henner

Another example of a street photographer (who could also be seen as a Social documentary photographer) is Mishka Henner. The piece of work I have been looking at is called 'No mans land' which captures, from Google street view, what appears to be women soliciting sex on the outskirts of European cities. From the article on designboom, is says that Henner found the locations of the google street coordinates from sources off online forums, where men share local knowledge on the whereabouts of sex workers.
 http://www.designboom.com/art/mishka-henner-no-mans-land/

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The images that he has created are all very similar to each other, in the sense of surrealism and isolation. Like Rickard's work, he is focusing on something very real and problematic. In many of Henner's images the roads are empty, making the viewer uneasy whilst seeing almost fragile women standing on the side of the road waiting for someone to drive past. The isolation of where they are standing/sitting, with the lack of clothes they are wearing makes me feel, as a viewer, unsafe. The surrealism of it all daunts the fact that it is very much occurring, the women casually sitting in chairs on the side of the roads is quite alarming and sinister.