Space in between - an exploration of the experience of time and sound

This research project aims to reveal relationships between time duration and ambient sound, and determine ways that these relationships can be utilised to photograph a chosen environment. Environment in this case refers to landscapes and/or cityscapes.<br><br>Central to this investigation is a consideration of how the camera can be combined with body movement and the process of photographic exposure in response to ambient sounds in a chosen environment. The ambient sound will determine how to move and what is captured through the camera lens. The proposed method of investigation will consider ways of accom¬modating any significant shifts in personal biorhythm in response to the sounds, and the influence this has on photographing these environments.<br><br>The research includes an investigation of contemporary artistic practice, philosophical theories and scientific principles. Through an experimentation of exposures (singular and multiple), camera and body movement and selective compositional framing, a visual abstraction of landscape was achieved and a temporal compression of time and space into a singular image was examined under the ever-present influence of ambient sound.<br><br>The photographic results of the artistic practice contribute to an awareness and understanding of photographic imaging that goes beyond a static, literal translation of recording a given space. The addition and translation of ambient sound into body move¬ment while exposing has added another metaphoric layer of space description to the discussion of the relationship between time, space and photography.<br>