Exploring Movement

Ghosts

The exploration of Intentional Camera Movement or ICM as well as Long Exposure was not one I had considered artistic or worth my time perfecting, but it was this form that I saw the beauty of photography in. Before starting this project I had researched ways to capture different movement in photography, and it was in the intentional movement of the camera that I had realized where I had to start this project. The goal was to emulate the styles of Olga Karlovach and Alexey Titarenko, but I believe I found something more when exploring this series. The photos had this painterly effect to them and there was an atmosphere of almost foreboding doom. It looked as if I was watching ghosts march to patterns they had been repeating on and on again for eternity. As I watched groups of people walk past my camera I could hear a musical note form in my head and I started to hear the sounds of Shostakovich in my ear. The bodies of people disappeared and all that was left were wisps of figures. Their faces had become formless and in some cases their shadows had painted the far walls like the essence of who they were had burned into a building. I look at these photos and I now say that a sharp photo isn’t the only way to take a photograph.