The editors of the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (no. 160 Autumn 2023) asked contributors to nominate their favourite outrageous works of art. Architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote offered: ‘Artist Sophie Calle’s Suite Venitienne (1980), in which she surreptitiously tracked and photographed a man going to Venice. Sinister, strange and suspect, it struck me as deeply invasive and intriguing, and asks what women might do as art that men could not.’
I borrowed Calle’s idea for a sequence of images in my photo book Footfall (2001).