Infrared, 2016

Now those drones are still in the air, you feel them, you hear them, you hear their voice, it gets louder and louder. Sunset, when the darkness comes many things come. Darkness means calmness you know, it means no more noises, you can rest and sleep in peace. But sometimes it also brings you the voice and the loud sounds of the drones for just filling the sky. Reminding everyone that anything could be attacked at any moment.

Daniel Tepper and Vittoria Mentasti photographed scenes of daily life across Gaza using a thermal imaging system to create an alternate picture of the environment of conflict. The photographers wanted to show Gaza through the eye of a drone but from an intimate, ground level perspective that remains inaccessible to unmanned vehicles flown by the Israeli military. The imaging system was hacked to further abstract the images and play with the notions of representation and discretion that inform drone vision.