Wired reports on The Grocery Store Project, which Simon Høgsberg created using one camera to photograph 97,000 people outside a supermarket over a 21-month period. “Then he used facial recognition software to create a pedestrian survey of the people rushing past for his interactive series,” the report states, which “documents the intersecting lives of people who pass by each other almost daily, and it creates a fascinating ‘map’ showing how these lives converge.” The project “weaves together 457 people who happened to walk in front of his lens.” In all, he’s “identified and named 11,000 individuals,” the report states, noting only two people “said they didn’t want to be photographed,” and if anyone asked, Høgsberg told them he was “making a visual analysis of the Danish culture.”
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