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Sophie Calle - (Female) Born 1953, a French writer, Photography, installation artist and Conceptual artist.  Since 2005 she has worked as a professor of film and photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.  After completing her schooling she travelled for seven years.  When she returned to Paris in 1979 she began a series of projects to acquaint herself again both with the city and people of Paris and with herself. 
          In Suite Venitienne (1979), Calle followed a man she met at a party in Paris to Venice, where she disguised herself and followed him around the city, photographing him. Calle’s surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as Henri B, includes black and white photographs accompanied by text.



Portrait of Sophie calle



Sophie Calle's following strangers project

I find Sophie Calle's work intruiging and in a sense quite creepy in the way she follows people without them realising and captures their every move.