Sequences is a series in which I explore the passing of time through photography. Initially I was mostly concentrating on the notion of 'now' and how photography can be used to describe it. But can the 'now' ever really be truly represented since the present is ever-moving, ever changing? Few photographers have succeeded in doing so such as the grandfather of candid street photography -Henry Cartier Bresson.
In Part I of my Sequences series I chose to take multiple images of a figure walking down the stairs, at rregular intervals and arranged them in a grid in chronological order in the style of Eadweard Muybridge and Duane Michals. Rather than narrating a story through these sequences, I simply wanted to plot moments during an interval to visualise the passing of time. These photographs individually wouldn't really work as a composition by themselves because I wasn't able to capture that 'decisive moment' like in Michals' images but strange as this subject matter may be, they work as a collective when grouped together in this manner and viewed in this specific way and order.
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The lighting in the following sequences is very extreme in order to portray an atmosphere or mood, the monochromatic palette helping to exaggerate the melancholy and gloomy atmosphere of the particular day the images were taken on. It's very obvious that these photos are staged and absolutely not spontaneous due to the repetitive nature of the poses but the feeling of the passing of time is still evident within them.
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