MOVING STILL
2009 current
Little epics of the everyday
A growing collection of poor (in the sense of humble) yet moving documents of the everyday, the result of chance encounters between time passing, my penchant for contemplation and the stillness of my camera.
I often use the video function of my still digital camera, more appropriate to document the various layers of time and meaning contained within one single still frame. I have learnt to trust that special tension in my index urging me to switch to video mode. Every time it happens, I catch something extra-ordinary and minute, which would have escaped me otherwise. Be it a strange atmosphere of an Austrian woods, a collision between a fly and a snail, a dangling apple in the wind, a seagull lunching on a live rabbit in Inverness, a crane slowly lifting a liftbox in Glasgow, the stillness of a frog in a fish tank in Brixton, a bridge lifting across a canal in Paris, the wind blowing on long grass in the Highlands, a clumsy photographer in St Yrieix, spider talk in Farnham….
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