Statement of Intent
I often feel that I am moving through life without fully registering it. One thing follows another: places, conversations, people, responsibilities, images. My attention is constantly pulled towards what comes next, and the present begins to disappear before I have properly experienced it.
Rush explores this erosion of attention.
Using a pinhole camera and long exposures, I want to photograph people and places as they sometimes feel to me: present, yet difficult to hold on to. A person may remain in front of the camera but fail to fully register. A familiar room can shift through repeated exposures until its solidity becomes uncertain. Faces disappear, bodies become traces and places overlap with slightly different versions of themselves.
The process deliberately contradicts the subject. The pinhole camera is slow. It asks me to stop, compose, open the shutter and wait. While everyday life encourages me to move faster, the camera requires sustained attention.
The photographs are not intended to document speed itself. They explore its consequence: the gradual failure to notice.
Through Rush, I want to slow photography down enough to examine what happens when life moves too quickly for people, places and moments to properly register.
