1) The photos I have chosen to show are of a genre called slit-scan photography. Ansen Seale's images are not manipulated, his camera captures images in a way that a panoramic camera does. All of the "distortions" happen in-camera. Seale invented his own dual-mode digital camera to produce panoramic and slit-scan photos. The camera's sensor only accepts light through a tiny slit and the camera has an internal motor that can rotate the camera.
2) Seale is concerned with ideas of time and our place within time. His photography examines time as it is passing rather than capturing a single moment. In the first photo, the model had to move in order to be captured. Seale believes that his camera captures a hidden reality that lies beneath our everyday experience. He is fascinated by the idea that our everyday experience may not actually be reality and with his photos he can reveal a different reality. He compares his camera to a microscope or telescope, making the point that "the machine expands our ability to perceive more about the nature of reality."
3) I chose Seale's photos because I couldn't believe that they were not manipulated and I could not wrap my mind around how he creates these images. His slit-scan photos are so different from anything I have seen. Even knowing he uses a special camera, I'm still amazed at how the images appear abstracted but are taken from reality. I think he is successful in conveying his idea about moving through time. I think it's cool that he challenges what it is to take a photograph, because typically when you think of photography you think capturing a moment. Seale captures time as it unfolds and that makes his work really unique.
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