LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Dabbles in light photography largely inspired by 2am thoughts.

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” – John Berger

This particular series of photos explores the tension of being simultaneously in motion and at rest, of conveying motion in a static medium, and the idea of collapsing time into one singular instance. Each photo is a long-exposure record of myself walking with an illuminated flashlight, painting in and revealing my environment and path as I walk.

Nowadays, we write more than ever (whether it be a tweet or an Instagram caption) but what we write is usually written for the moment and nothing more. We write bios that don’t really tell anything about us and that no one really reads; we write captions that are quickly scrolled past; we write texts that are quickly forgotten about or left unread. However, as ephemeral as the intentions behind these writings are, what happens on the internet will forever stay, in some shape or form, on the internet.

These photographs were inspired by this idea - of what we write following us around like some ghostly text, clues that can be pieced together to create a picture of the person you are or once were. The contents of these photos are quotes that I feel describe some aspect of me well. Each photo was taken by capturing scrolling text on a computer screen as I physically walked the laptop across the room.

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby