A photo study of me participating in a study for a research company involved in a heated debate about a gene mapping database to be created and whether there would be any personally identifiable, possibly sensitive, data to be obtained from it.
I thought this to be a very misguided debate as such things like medical records can be fairly easily accessed if one really "needs" to.

In my opinion this should have been more about the fact that the government was not just giving the company access to those records, but mandating doctor to make the entrys to the database, and so in essence though it may have taken a lot of work ot create this database all further work was to be done for free by our doctors paid by our tax money for them to do research on an sell.

Therefore, when I was asked to participate in a study of theirs as a comparative individual I didn't just say ok, but went in and photographed the whole process, then displayed it for all to see as to ridicule this discussion of personally identifiable data.
Iceland is simply to small a community.

So I went, a pre-paid taxi-ride back and forth, signed all the papers, had my blood drawn, got my "prize"-T-shirt and went back home with a band-aid on my arm.

October 2001