The project has become a way for Jacqui Kenny to visit places that she could never go to herself—the more remote, the better.
Last year, amid the stress of shutting down a company she’d co-founded nearly ten years before, Jacqui Kenny, a New Zealander living in London, began exploring the world on Google Street View. At first, she would pick locales more or less at random, poking around the streets of faraway towns and taking screenshots whenever she stumbled upon a striking image.
Kenny now posts photos from the collection on an Instagram account called Agoraphobic Traveller, a reference to another impetus behind the project: Kenny, who is friendly and witty in conversation, suffers from anxiety that, on a bad day, can make it difficult to leave the house. Contrary to a common misconception, agoraphobia is often less a fear of open spaces than it is a fear of losing control.
Many of the photos share a clear, wide blue sky and look as though they were taken through a sandy haze. At first scroll, it appears as though they all could have been shot in the same place; in fact, they span from Lima, Peru, and Sharjah, U.A.E., to Winslow, Arizona.
People, when they occasionally appear in these pictures, are either tiny, toy-size figures, dwarfed by the landscape, or their faces are blurred because of Google’s privacy protocols. The scenes are simultaneously revealing and distancing—as if you’re peering into people’s daily lives through a telescope. The Internet is rife with odd, unnerving, and absurd images that people have found on Google Street View—pictures that seem to be evidence of an unruly and unpredictable world.
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