Fluid Time - An (en)Visionographic Chicago Story


  • Photographer
    Julia Anna Gospodarou
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    September 2013
  • Technical Info
    Long exposure +tilt-shift blur

This series is a story about the architecture of Chicago, where I aim to present the way it impacted me, the way it made me feel. I'm using as tool to present my impressions the characteristics of the blur that the tilt-shift lens can create in an image when fully tilted, also the the technique of daylight long exposure. The idea I had in mind when working at this series was to look at architecture and see it as a parallel reality, as a dream and a gate towards our subconscious world, towards our hidden desires and aspirations. What I want to convey with my study is that time, space, reality itself, are only conventions. Living inside them can be just as easy as living outside them and the reality of living outside them can be just as real as the one of relating to them. Dreaming can be reality just as imagination can be reality as well. For me, this is a way of looking at photography in a different way, seeing it as (en)Visionography, the name I give to my work, rather than as traditional photography. Does world need to have a clear material shape to be real? I do not think so and this series is an attempt at showing this concept by sliding reality towards dream by means of an image.

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