Identity and control is produced through continuous visual monitoring. I decided to work with CCTV cameras as a contemporary extension of this institutional observation, a system that runs globally and repetitively.

Repetition became the central concept of the project. Repetition runs through time, through technology, and through human behaviour. In my book the CCTV camera captures the same frame again and again, in different parts of the world, translating reality into standardization of pixels.

The bookwork allowed me to slow down these systems and understand the pixel as a measure. I selected ten CCTV images from an archive that I've built through time. Although the locations differ geographically, the images are standardised by the system that captures them. This sameness became important to the project, it allowed the pixel, rather than the place, to become the principle of the book.

Each image is shifted by four pixels to the left and upward from the previous one. This small movement introduces repetition as a mechanism to express time. Time is no longer represented through narrative or sequence alone, but through displacement. The repetition allows the pixel to control time. As the image moves, certain pixels from the original frame are gradually restricted, cropped, or lost. Through the loss of the pixel, the reader begins to perceive time passing through images, sites, and layers

Ultimately, this project explores how systems of observation shape not only images, but behaviour, perception, and identity. By moving from the passport to CCTV and finally into bookwork, I trace how institutional ways of seeing become embedded in domestic objects, and how reading itself can become an act of surveillance.