in the one nine hundred seventy s. one man surrounded by monitors delivering a barrage of images by the time he spotted a crime it had already been committed. photo stills of bank robbers taken by surveillance cameras. these days the technology is far more sophisticated frontex the european border and coast guard patrols the mediterranean using high definition cameras to identify and observe refugee boats but the technology keeps the observers and the observed at a distance. this is the perspective and wrote a song to capture photos. what i saw as a very special about it was that when the border patrolmen actually made contact with these people the distance was extremely great. and.