White walls, green and blue doors, a blue Lexus at the kerb and a figure passing by. Jacqui Kenny, known as the Agoraphobic Traveller, built a large following by exploring the world through Google Street View, screenshotting the scenes she found and sharing them as Street View Portraits. Lexus wanted its cars inside that world, so the scenes had to be made for real.
Lanzarote, with its square white houses and painted shutters, was the setting. With Jacqui unable to travel, the car photography was made on the ground, with the camera mounted on a car to frame each scene as a real Street View car would. Surfers walk past with their boards, a man on a ladder stops work to stare at the camera, as passers-by so often do when the Street View car goes by, and the UX sits in each scene as if it had always been parked there.
Client: Lexus. Artist: Jacqui Kenny.
