The photographs that make up Kim Min’s Yes We Cam series document the police as they document participants in protests and demonstrations. Kim has produced a new configuration of about 70 photographs and documents from the 400-odd elements comprising the series for Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Kim had been photographing citizens seeking to engage with and express their opinions on a wide range of social and political issues when he became interested in how police evidence-gathering work indiscriminately targeted members of the public through such sophisticated means as telescopic lenses or CCTV surveillance cameras. In 2015, Kim was himself indicted for participating in a protest. In the process, he learned that the police evidence against him had been uploaded to an electronic database, giving the state more access to his personal information. These findings are also included in the installation alongside the photographs to demonstrate how photography is used as a tool for state surveillance and political control.
