One of my favourite things about photography is how you can change the perception of the world around you. With photography you can not only blur a waterfall or stop a drop of water but you can change the fundamental ways in which we see the world. The best way to do this is by changing the vantage point.
By combining a slow shutter speed and a high vantage point I can shift the way the viewer sees the world. The photos in this series are meant to be disorienting and even confusing. They are shot in such a way that most of the time there is no defined ‘up’ or ‘down’ with the only constant being the pole, grounding the viewer to the Earth.
Film is a natural counterpart to this project. The process of putting a camera on a pole gives an inherent unpredictability to the image. There is no real way to compose the image precisely or to know exactly what will come out on the other side and film only extends that. Film introduces new variables, new inconsistencies, and new factors that can’t be accounted for. This makes each image unique. There are no do-overs and requires capturing the moment when you want, not waiting for the moment to come to you.
