Monday, January 31, 2011

The Un-Moment

I've meandered in and out of lots of construction sites the last couple of years. I'm usually busy documenting roofing and grouting and caulking in progress, but the grabbed frames hold more interest for me.

I admire Chase Jarvis for a lot of reasons, and this concept he shared from his Seattle 100 project makes a whole lot of sense to me:

"It was always my goal to catch the 'un-moment' -- that instant just before and just after such photographic moments that have been so historically revered in our culture. Even if the subject isn't moving, the image is just a millisecond 'off,' a sliver of time that captures the spontaneous..."


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