In the Eyewitness a group of children between the ages of 8-10 years spent time in a room where the artist had arranged a display of carefully selected blown-up news footage from Reuters’ press image archive showing current political situations from around the world.
The children were asked to reflect on the images, without getting any information about the background or the situation that the image was taken from. They were asked to simply react to what they saw. The discussions recorded by the artist were barely guided. The outcome is a blur of facts, acquired opinions and the children’s own ideas heard as a voice-over in the video. In slow pan shots details and close-ups of the images are scanned and sometimes a child`s hand or leg crosses through the image.