one-sixth of a second

Street photography can be fascinating. I think it's because we are naturally nosy. We want to stare, to absorb the details and imagine the facts. But on the street, we only get a glimpse. We don't have permission to stare. The great thing about a street photograph is that we have permission to stare. In the series One-Sixth of a Second I have used motion blur to remove some of the detail we seek. We have permission to stare but only at what we might have perceived in a quick glance. Some of these images are single exposures. In the others I have created a time-collage by combining two or more images from a single tripod-mounted sequence.

Photographer and film maker Elliott Erwitt once said of photography: "I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."