Shot

Photography and cinema both require a subject, but their relationship with time and objects is different. A film is a symbolic and non-material representation related to the present, while a photograph captures an image and a static object from the past. The distinct element of cinema compared to photography is motion. The story in a photograph often needs to be defined with a title or text, whereas the story in a film is narrated through its own movement. Can the story still be preserved by eliminating motion in animated images and transforming them into photographs?

Here, my attempt has been to generate my own works in a space between these two mediums by drawing inspiration from the unique features of photography and cinema. Therefore, I have tried to bring the process of producing an image and its form as close as possible to a film. All the photos are taken with historical motion picture negatives, and each frame has its own pre-production, production, and post-production, maintaining a unique identity separate from each other.

These images, from my perspective, are glimpses of films where I, by freezing the narrative in motion and using the summarization of a photograph, have left their storytelling to the viewer’s imagination.