{"id":49415,"date":"2012-06-03T00:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T04:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattsteffen.com\/?p=49415"},"modified":"2016-08-05T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:40:40","slug":"cincy-fringe-fest-2012-long-exposure-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattsteffen.com\/cincy-fringe-fest-2012-long-exposure-project\/","title":{"rendered":"cincy fringe fest 2012 – long exposure project"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the 2012 Cincy Fringe Festival<\/a>‘s Visual Fringe,\u00a0I\u00a0created the Long Exposure Project <\/strong>– throughout the course of the 12 day festival, I\u00a0shot the performances and events in a long exposure format.<\/p>\n

I have always been fascinated with using photography to bend our perception of what is physically possible. Either through dragging the shutter or stitching together a photo taken from multiple viewpoints, the image is at once realistic and spatially confusing. The photos become a story about what you’ve seen rather than the actual thing you saw.<\/p>\n

For this project I wanted to focus on the relationship between movement and time. In as little as a few seconds, with enough movement, one fails to register in the image at all. Standing still for 5 minutes during a 60 minute exposure will leave just the ghost of an image. A 45 minute dance performance might look like an empty stage. I like the idea of seeing a well lit scene with props in place and only swirls and trails left behind of the performance that happened there. The recording of an entire event reduced to a single frame. It makes me wonder what marks will be left when I am gone.<\/p>\n

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