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Under Our Watchful Eye
2025
Under Our Watchful Eye is an abolitionist zine by designer Juliana Maurer (NC, USA) and researcher Yuna Chang (London, UK), created in response to the global reach of everyday surveillance. Using a volvelle—a rotating circular format—the zine reimagines the panopticon prison. As readers spin the wheel, they reveal photographs of surveillance cameras across London alongside quotes from Jeremy Bentham's 1790 Panopticon Letters.
In addition to the zine, the artists facilitate zine workshops across the US and UK to interrogate how safety, surveillance, and policing show up in our lives.
Edition Size
100 total with 3 interchangeable colorways
Format
254mm x 254mm
Materials
French Speckletone cover, metallic brads, record sleeves
Method
Screen printed with laser-cut components
On the reverse, the zine highlights guiding principles of resistance, offering visions of abolition and solidarity. The interactive format invites reflection on how surveillance shapes our lives and how, by sharing knowledge and building connections across borders, we can dismantle these systems and imagine collective liberation.
Culminating from more than a year of research, this project is in constant iteration. As we build a platform for sharing resources on this topic, as well as access to DIY printable files, we hope to expand the project by addressing surveillance more globally while connecting community more locally.
To do this, we have conducted workshops in Western North Carolina, London, and Cambridge relating to zine-making, surveillance, and safety. These workshops have been generative spaces of creation, questioning, and imagining otherwise.
Participant interaction with the volvelle, as well as creation of their own