DayStream is a series of images using a Hasselblad medium format camera. The shutter speed is left open as the camera is moving, producing a blur. The images are straight photographs using Ektachrome 64 and Agfa 1000 transparency film and aren’t manipulated with digital software. The images are unique to a camera’s capabilities, creating pictures the human eye can’t see but nonetheless evoke emotions such as speed, instability and beauty.

I first started experimenting with this technique while taking a film class with Barry Gerson at RISD. Barry was a formalist who emphasized how film cameras work e.g. focus, zoom, and shutter speed like formalist painters focussed on paint, color and composition.

He showed us seminal films by Stan Brakhage (Dog Star Man), Ernie Gehr (Serene Velocity), and Michael Snow (Wavelength). These were truly inspiring at an impressionable age. See work done during this time period in the series Filmstrip.