These photographs are a collection of short fragments from my ‘Scroll’ works. Each photograph is 20 x 180 cm and beautifully Diasec mounted.
The ‘Scroll’ photographs began as a fascination with the transition of time, I have been exploring the etching and interpretation of movement within the still image. The works focus on motion within landscape photography and as a perpetual narrative that integrates the elements of time and space within the image.
The original image (the scroll photographs) extends beyond the standard frame dimension and provides the viewer with a visual horizontal narrative. I work with my old fashioned Pentax camera which I have modified by attaching a motor and in pulling the film through the camera while the shutter is open, I create a long exposure (up to 4min minute) of the entire roll of 35mm film. The result is a photograph that is one frame – the entire length of 36-frames, and reveals an elasticity to time where the future, present and past co-exist as one image.
With landscape photography I deals with two different approaches to motion and narrative within nature and urban spaces. The first approach focuses on the buzzing urban life of cities such as London and Amsterdam, and the capturing of movements generated by vehicles and people meandering through the streets. While in photographing ‘still’ open spaces of historical significance such as the Dead Sea, Caesarea, and Acre in Israel, I construct an account of the location and introduce movement through the scanning motion of the camera. Both approaches explore the concept and experience of the landscape through the medium of abstraction and movement.
