Photographer John T.D. Murphy experiments with pinhole photography in his latest body of work, 'Three and a half minutes'. Murphy explains the project, "Three and a half minutes’ captures the energy and tension of motion through stillness. Much like our memory, pinhole photography is not a snap shot but rather a moment, blurred by time and colored by interpretation."
"All photographs in some way capture reality. Standard photography takes one frame as representative of a larger event defined by change over time. ‘Three and a half minutes’ attempts to record the event itself, not an instant. In each piece, an impression is made over an extended period of time, anywhere from five seconds to 30 minutes. The pinhole process allows me to explore photography as more than a static medium. Instead of being over in a single instant, the image can be stretched and molded."
"The work centers on action and restraint. Through classic poses - reaching, grasping, falling - and through my interpretation of masculine ideals, I aim to create something more like a drawing or a painting than a photograph - a more accurate depiction of the titular time span."
"The sense of faux reality created by the supersaturated background and the pinhole camera's nearly infinite depth of field is broken by the models' movements. These small reverberations simultaneously obscure their features and convey their humanity. The gradation in background color is a result of the models' skin tone against the background, in essence a record of the models’ struggle to hold form. This vibrato surrounds and conceals the features of the models and conveys the physical tension of their stillness. This can also be viewed as the physical manifestation of the emotional tension between artist and subject."
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