Proximities

The medium of photography through its technicality is preoccupied with time – its unhuman temporality. Where the amount of light striking the negative is determined by a duration in which a camera’s aperture will open and close. Yet, what would be revealed if instead of using a photographic technicality to record a moment, we exposure the longer duration; instead of moving through a multiplicity of moments we perceive them as one, inseparably abstracting it from absolute reality, compounded in a single static image. I approach the subject of the Welsh landscape with an objective mind, as an immigrant, with no pre-conception or memory connection to it. Opening of the aperture for long duration enables me to move away from the camera, observe and interact with the landscape – being part of it through the act of ‘spending time’, where settings and actions can leave a trace; the apparatus, myself and landscape, inform a very act of photographing.