This work is centered around an exploration of how the temporal can present itself in photography. By looking at time and technique in image making, we can see how the camera can be used to create images which contain unseen and compressed elements, but it can also create the impression of motion in photographic images. It’s this idea of temporal motion that I feel offers the greatest freedom to create unique and unrepeatable photographs. By looking into the history of photography and to the images of Wedgwood, Niépce, and Daguerre there was the constant need to fix images, to make them permanent; experimenting with the balance of science and art to produce pictorial archival documents. In my work I wanted to look at the reverse; could I free a photograph from its fixed state and create images that are almost lost before they have really started to form?
