Passing Frequencies is my new collection of 1/1 photographs, released on Transient Labs. Every image was made in camera. There is no AI, no synthetic rendering and no digital post-processing. It's only a sensor, a moving hand and, in some frames, a piece of glass.
How the images are made
I use two things. The first is intentional camera movement. I move the camera during the exposure, so buildings lose their edges and the street becomes a painted surface. The second is the use of glass optics, which bends the scene and breaks it apart. Neither effect can be repeated exactly. I get one frame, and then the person has walked on.
Ghosts, not portraits
The people in these pictures are not posed and not named. They are whoever crossed the frame. I'm not interested in who they are. I'm interested in the trace they leave as they move through a place, the rhythm of a street made of people passing through it. That is the frequency I mean.
Echoes of Transit is the first piece I released. A single figure walks away from the camera across a park, in a dark jacket and pale trousers. The trees and the buildings behind them streak into vertical lines. The person is the only thing still holding a shape, and even that is dissolving.
In Optical Vortex, the entire public square is sucked into a circular physical aperture. The scene warps into a hypnotic, concentric tunnel of space and time, pulling the viewer's eye inward toward a distant, fleeting human presence.
Why I made it this way
There is so much synthetic imagery now that a photograph can feel as if it has to justify itself. I wanted to go the other way, towards the physical, uncontainable chaos of the real world: moments that existed in front of the lens for a split second and then vanished for good. Nothing in these images was generated. Everything in them happened.
Passing Frequencies is released as 1/1s on Transient Labs. Echoes of Transit is minted, Optical Vortex comes next, and more will follow.