You Haven't Seen Their Faces

You Haven't Seen Their Faces borrows the visual language of a police wanted-poster and points it at power rather than poverty, presenting the hundred most influential figures in the City of London as though they were suspects in an ongoing investigation.

Prompted by the surveillance imagery London police circulated after the 2011 riots (grainy CCTV stills of young, often working-class suspects), Daniel Mayrit sourced public images of London's leading bankers, financiers, and executives and reworked them into the same coded aesthetic: cropped, gridded, stamped with case numbers. Designer Verónica Fieiras bound the 101-page book in brown kraft paper, screw-bound like an evidence file, its cover printed with the line "These are the faces of the 100 most powerful people in the City of London. Use these images at your own discretion." RIOT BOOKS published the project in Madrid in 2015 in a signed, numbered edition of 350.

Mayrit, a Madrid-based photographer working between documentary and conceptual practice, builds his projects around surveillance, bureaucracy, statistics and other institutional image systems, and how they assign guilt or invisibility. You Haven't Seen Their Faces won the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award the year of its publication and remains his best-known work.