I have converted the latest train footage to video and will be using them as final pieces. Initially I had six to work with, however, one has a bus travelling through the scene which detracts from the ideas I am conveying and is generally distracting and a second piece of footage got encoded rather badly […]

I went back to the trains with a more developed shooting technique, allowing me to achieve much better footage, which in turn I hoped would produce stronger images and videos. Here I have some images, not all are quite the correct dimensions, but I can iron out the creases at a later point. For me, […]

In this video I have gone back to some of my older footage, managing to present it in the most interesting way yet. This footage interests me because it mimics the actual technique used in factories to check components and products passing down a conveyor belt and applies this to real life. There is so […]

After taking images of trains I was pretty sure that I could take any moving vehicle out of its environment in a similar way. I have shown here the example of a fire engine. The work is visually not as strong as the trains and perhaps has less meaning of speed – trains look fast […]

I decided to experiment one last time with the body before deciding which route to take with my work. These stills are from a full video which I have decided not to post here. The technique twists and controts the body, it makes me think of the work of Anna Mendieta, it would be really […]

In this video I have created a self portrait using my current video techniques. I think I have created something really interesting, but I am starting to move away from my original ideas about time and space, this is more to do with the body and the self, perhaps reality. I like the work and […]

Here is some of the code that I had to use to process the videos into stills, scan them, and then convert them back into video again. I think that the code itself has a part in my work, and I am considering it being part of the work itself, showing directly how technology interacts […]

A Solargraph is a photograph which is taken on a very long exposure, generally in a pinhole camera. The result is that the image takes on the surroundings, but the sun streaks across the sky multiple different times – showing a trace of its path. The resulting image is then fixed but not developed – […]

I have looked at the work of Sugimoto before but wanted to draw upon this series, which is taken inside a cinema. I like the work becuase it draws upon both the still and moving image, and uses one to capture the other. I think this is a great way to interact with the medium […]

Carter is an English photographer and artist whose work is centered around the concept of painting with light. He often creates very graphic imagery, yet through photographic means. He achieves his images using a special camera which has a swing lens – normally used to create a panorama. By swinging this lens across the image […]

http://vimeo.com/42460300 I looked into La Jetee because it succeeds in creating a film almost entirely from stills. There is also narration added to the film which was obviously not part of the original recording. This meeting of mediums appears seemless, with the audience not jarred or disorientated by its format, instead they become enveloped in […]

Woodman was a young photographer, artist and student, who made most of her work in the 1970’s before her suicide at the age of 22. I wanted to look at her work because of the way in which she takes advantage of the camera and its recording method. The slow shutter allows the artist to […]

Knapek creates imagery based on time, which he has been delveloping for some time. It is vaguely based on slit-scan photography, although he writes as though he is unaware of the technique. His basic work comprises of time lapse images shown as one single image, allowing us to see multiple moments in time, all in […]

In Mobile Brush Lam experiments with technology to “draw” an image from a video input. He explains how his softwares funciton in his video, which he says is a mobile phone application. Lam seems more interested in the interaction of the medium of technology and the world than the imagery itself. The use of technology […]

Mittelstaedt uses slitscan photography to record a trace of his subject, when she moves her movement is recorded as a series of lines travelling across the image, a ghosting of her movement. This piece is quite effective visually, with good technical qualities and the movement and its recording become quite striking. The video is about […]

Daniel Crooks is an artist who works with the slit scan technique. He uses it to distort and alter what we see in the real world with some good results, which he presents as series of videos, accompanied by stills. In this video, crooks uses his technique to create the illusion that the waves are […]

In his video The fourth dimension Rybczynski uses a rolling shutter effect, similar to slit-scan photography, to alter our perception of time and space. In the video objects are warped and twisted, often around the actors, in a way not perceivable in the world we perceive. The story plays on the theme of entwinement, relationships […]

I have chosen to look at this image, not because of the artist, but the way in which it exhibits focal plane distortion, a related topic to slit scan photography. Because the shutter of the camera moved at a high speed, it was beginning to close before it was fully open, as it moved across […]

Tacita Dean is a British artist who works primarily with film. She sees film as an important medium in the way it has a tangability and interaction with time. Her work questions the act of looking, and whether there is honesty in what we can see. She works on her projects by learning from her […]

Muybridge was an English photographer whose work was pioneering in the field of movement. His work studied the movement of people and animals, going as far as to reconstruct this movement in a device which he called the zooproxiscope, which projected still images from a spinning glass disc to create an illusion of movement. What […]

Dr. Edgerton worked as both an artist and a scientist, looking at ways in which the camera could freeze motion, much like Muybridge and Marey before him. There are several strands to his work, including studies of movement, high speed images and military work for the US governments nuclear weapons program. His work centers around […]

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 […]

This film was made in 1982 by Godfrey Reggio. It is made up of slow motion video and time lapse clips of various landscapes, moving into the city and examining its movement. Yet again, this is a piece which contrasts the still and moving image in order to get us to re-evaluate time. Especially relevant […]

Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs. Cinemagraphs, which are usually published in an animated GIF format, can give the illusion that the viewer is watching a video Wikipedia Here are some examples; As seen in the images, still and moving images are combined to make a short loop which […]

Dryden Goodwin is an English artist, mostly known for his series of portraits overlaying drawing with photography. Here I have selected one of his lesser known works, which formed part of a 1999 exhibition at the Site Gallery, Traffic. The piece presents us with a series of film stills, displayed as small transparencies on a […]

John Hilliard is an English artist who uses photography in his work, which mostly challenges the concept of photography itself. He does this by exploiting things which are specific to the medium such as shutter speed and exposure in order to challenge its truth. By creating multiple versions of the same image, Hilliard proves that […]

Gerhard Richter is a German artist and most prominently a painter, while he has also produced photorealistic paintings, and photographs which appear painterly or have been altered with paint. Again, this is an artist whose work links to the intermediatlity concept running through my work currently. Richter’s photographic work relies on it’s technique to demostrate […]

David Claerbout is a Belgian artist who works with both photography and video, I am especially interested in the way which his work confronts the boundary between photography and video. He does this by exploiting cinematic projects of photographs, as well as photographic presentations of cinema, such as large format grids of video, used to […]

Etienne Marey was a French scientist working in the late nineteenth century, he was a pioneer of both cineam and photography. His work looks at human movement using photography to capture and display the actions. His photography was created using a specially created “gun”, which captured 12 frames a second, all exposed onto the same […]

Tim Macmillan is a photographer and videographer who pioneered the “Time Slice” effect while at University in the 1980’s. He designed his own equipment and process to capture his imagery. Macmillan’s specialised equipment is effectively a large metal ring, containing from hundreds of cameras, each of which create stills on 16mm film. The film is […]