From Map Tool to Museum Walls: Google Street View Turns Artistic

Google Street View has mapped over 10 million miles of the planet — but it’s also captured humanity at its strangest.

From tigers on the loose to midair dolphins and fleeting accidents, those candid, algorithmic moments have become art in “Report a Concern,” a new exhibition at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

The show spotlights Nine Eyes of Google Street View, a long-running project by Canadian artist Jon Rafman, who has spent years archiving surreal, emotional, and sometimes disturbing images taken by Google’s camera cars.

Each photo, sourced from real life and untouched, tells a story that Google never meant to tell — one about beauty, tragedy, and voyeurism in the digital age.

The title “Report a Concern” comes from Google’s old feature inviting users to flag sensitive imagery — a phrase now reborn as an artistic challenge to how we view privacy and ethics online.