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Paul Gorman is an upcoming British photographer who recently graduated from Bournemouth University. Since graduating Gorman has featured in a number of group shows around the country and his work is beginning to gain momentum. His work explores space and time through the use of multiple exposures, which enables him to view an object or scene from more than one perspective at the same time, at different times, in one image. This is somewhat similar to cubism, which attempted to represent three-dimensional space in paintings.

In the above image for example, we see both a long and a wide shot of the same (presumably) trees, allowing us to see two different viewpoints at one time. Rather than us reading this however as two seperate images, we see the new image as a whole, the two views merging into one single piece which becomes a new form of time and space which is only visible through the use of the camera.

This is relevant to my own work because of its use of time and space. It is interesting to see time collapsed down into a single still frame in this way, while the camera’s fixed perspective is denied as multiple ways of looking are composed on top of each other.