Out of Time - University Project

  • Joe Fenna

The material, spatial and temporal are cornerstones of photography, yet all revolve around rationalistic and spatially managed images. Photographs are moments in space. What if we consider them as spaces in moments? What if time becomes the focus of the image? Perhaps an offshoot of the brutal severence from time that photographing something appears to disregard its temporal nature. The aim of much photography is to embalm objects out of time, display them frozen to negate its passing. In this series I wanted to instead explore the possibility of interacting with time photographically, with influence from Jorge Luis Borges' short stories and Deleuze's conceptions of time and duration.