Urban Flow

Photographing time.

From Lens Culture...

What you see in my images is not space but tangible time.

With the slit-scan technique, a fraction of a moment is recorded through a 1-pixel wide slit several hundred times per second. The time and space slices recorded this way and placed right next to each other generate an image without a perspective; it is the passing of time itself that turns into space by moving forward in time from the right side toward the left in each image.

In other words, the events recorded on the right side of the image took place earlier than the ones on the left, also meaning that the people in the photos never existed together in the form shown by the image. So the people in the right-hand side of the image had grown several minutes older by the time the people seen in the left side passed my camera.

As a result of this time-space connection, all the people and vehicles in the photos are heading in one direction.

After reading the explanation several times, I still don't understand why everything faces the same direction.

The image above is only a small slice of the entire photo. To view Adam Magyar's gallery, click here.