Paris street view photojournalist Michael Wolf received an honourable mention in the 2011 world press photo awards for A Series of Unfortunate Events - a collection of photos he had taken of images, or crops of images, from Google Street View displayed on his computer. He was first lured onto Google Street View while living in Paris and looking for ways of viewing this mausoleum-like city that avoided the usual cliches. He became fascinated with the incidental events and actions that Google captures – crashes, brawls, mishaps, or as here, a moment of interaction with the neutral camera

Photograph: Michael Wolf/Courtesy of Flowers Gallery, London