Surveillance: a photographic exploration of the rapid rise of surveillance in modern society, is the culmination of 18 months work by Irish/Canadian photographer Erin Quinn. It was inspired by the UK and Irish Governments’ legislations and attitudes to surveillance and information-gathering over the past ten years. Since 2002 Irish law has required that telephone companies log details of every call made, text message sent, and the movements of every mobile phone registered to a network, and that the companies retain that information for three years. In this rising tide of covert surveillance, where in the UK it is estimated that the average person makes up to 300 CCTV appearances a day, Quinn spent over a year taking photographs of passengers in Dublin Airport to incite viewers to question their responses to images taken from a CCTV viewpoint. ‘Surveillance’ exposes the contradictory and troublesome nature of society’s relationship with surveillance following the ‘war on terror’ that began with 9/11.