One frame at a time

“One frame at a time” An archive of portraits built up over a period of five years, emerging from a working method that distances itself from the immediate, rapid image. Each photograph demands a long exposure time and places the sitter outside the rhythm of daily life. The requisite stillness evokes a different kind of attentiveness: an awareness of breath, slight involuntary movements, and the effort of remaining still. What begins as a technical choice thus becomes a moment of deceleration.

The images reveal traces of this process, such as subtle physical shifts, lapses in concentration, and the shared time between photographer and subject. These are not merely portraits of individuals, but recordings of time itself, manifested in the tension between control and bodily constraint.

The exhibition “One frame at a time” brings together these works, created over five years and still ongoing. Together they form an overview of people who momentarily stepped into a different temporal rhythm, dictated by the analogue process of light and emulsion rather than speed or efficiency.