German photographer Michael Wesely
uses his large format camera to capture light for sometimes up to three years
at a time. He uses this technique to capture change and development over long
periods of time. Many of his exposures are of the deconstruction and
construction of large buildings in big cities.
One of the most unique things about his incredibly long exposures are
the sun stripes at occur from the sun passing over the sky day after day. Wesely
comments, “the lines in the sky put our existence, us, our planet into context
with the Dance of the Universe, which coexists on an entirely different time
scale from us."
I enjoy Wesely and his work because
of his ability to truly capture what so many people attempt to document,
time. When hearing about a strip of film
being exposed for months or years at a time most start to wonder how that is
possible without the picture becoming over- exposed. This technique took Wesely
years of data collecting, experimentation and problem solving before he was
able to achieve his desired product. Wesely
also comments that the technical part of the process was never his “main
driving force.” His goal was to capture information that told our daily lives. I
find his ability to capture beautiful, thought-provoking work in such a mechanical
and methodological way to be an outstanding achievement.
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