I started experimenting with Slit Scan Photography during my 2012 studio trip to New Orleans. Instead of capturing spatial information like traditional photography, the slit scan process instead transcodes temporal information in a single image. Slit scan photographs can be read left to right as a timeline of when objects passed by the camera. Put another way, time is displaced as you read across the image. Motionless objects freeze and become bands of color.
Initially, the process for this technique was pretty laborious. I would record videos out in the field using the slow mode of my iPhone and then export the center column of pixels from each frame of the video. When compiled in order, these would create a slit-scan like effect. Later, others would create iphone apps to create these types of images in real time.
Take a look at my other project TIME IS CIRCULAR for an example where this effect is applied to a real time video feed.
CANAL STREET – NEW ORLEANS. 2012.
JACKSON SQUARE – NEW ORLEANS. 2012.
CANAL STREET – NEW ORLEANS. 2012.
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH – 2016.
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH – 2017.
BURNETT PLAZA – FORT WORTH – 2017.
MY BACKYARD – 2018.