Vetting Box

Vetting Box and Notebooks


Digital Photographs. All books in photos are in 1:1 scale. 2008.
These photographs document my official AIVD archive box, provided by the secret service and labeled with my vetting number, and the contents there within. The box contains three original notebooks in which I documented my meetings with 18 agents of the service. Each meeting is marked with a colored post-it note labeled with the agent's codename.
It is a rule that all agents leaving the service must relinquish their original material to the AIVD. Following this rule, I handed over my original notebooks in 2008, when my commission with the AIVD had been fulfilled. These notebooks, locked within a glass vitrine, are installed as a permanent work inside the new AIVD building. These photographs are their only (publicly accessible) evidence.

Vetting Box opened
College Blok
Personal Data
Stenopad
Cockpit