In his «Urban flow» series, Hungarian photographer Adam Magyar uses a slit-scan camera, which he designed and built himself, to capture several hundred one-pixel wide vertical images of busy streets in Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and New York. The time and space slices recorded this way and placed right next to each other generate an image without a perspective; it is the passing of time itself that turns into space by moving forward in time from the right side toward the left in each image. In other words, the events recorded on the right side of the image took place earlier than the ones on the left, also meaning that the people in the photos never existed together in the form shown by the image.
Oscar Ciutat
Portfolio del fotógrafo Oscar Ciutat