Beggar’s Honey
In Beggar’s Honey, Jack Latham explores the hidden world of click farms: secretive operations where workers, often paid very little, repeatedly click on ads or manage fake accounts to manipulate social media and online platforms.
Such farms influence the algorithms that shape what we see, buy, and believe. Latham visualizes these realities by pairing photographs of actual click farms in Vietnam and Hong Kong with the kind of viral TikTok-videos they help generate. In doing so, he reveals the deep interweaving of deception and experience in the digital world. His work reflects how digital infrastructures increasingly resemble hidden networks of labor, data, and influence, where genuine interaction and manufactured visibility are almost impossible to tell apart.
