How Far – How Close?

Editorial

The book is a culmination of various visual experiments to test the effects of movement & distance on human psychology, memory and vision. A succession of focal lengths, exposure timings and manual camera movements were used to generate still images. I examined the effect of these photographic manipulations on the image and its clarity. What emerged were various visual implications such as hazed memory, departure, separation and overlapping visual episodes.

This was a project at London College of Communication, University of the Arts

Departure and Separation

Process: Photographing the ground with successively decreasing focal lengths and increasing movement of the camera away from the ground.

Traces and retained visual episodes

Process: Low shutter speed + Fast camera movement