Thomas Holbach

On my last day in Vienna I tried to take some shots of Vienna’s subway stations, which are controlled by hundreds of cameras - reminding me of George Orwell’s “1984″.

While I was taking the photos, I was listening to “Prodigy”, giving me the right feeling in the dark atmosphere of a subway station.

So, after I took some pictures, I just built up my tripod at another place to get some more. Suddenly a voice through the loudspeakers of the station advised me: “Photographing in the area of Vienna’s subway is only allowed with a permission of..” and so on. I was laughing, put the tripod in its bag and wanted to go, when a guy came to me, asking me: “Why do you take pictures of cameras?” (It was a “normal” guy, not one of the security-bigbrothers behind the camera-movie-screens) - I tried to explain it to him, and told him my thoughts about it. He didn’t really understand everything, and asked me: “Do you often take photos of cameras?” I tried to explain it once again, and asked him about his opinion, but he just answered: “To each his own”