Adam Magyar manages to hack space and time in order to create moments of either utmost stillness or moments with so much motion that they're spread along a massive frame where ever detail of motion is captured. By using a camera set up that he himself created Magyar is able to capture moments lost to the normal human eye or even camera sensor. Magyar designed software that is seamlessly integrated into his equipment in order to capture, using a scanner/camera device, moments of such speed that the human eye could not normally perceive.
By freezing time in such high definition Magyar attempts to show us a world lost to the human eye, a world that comes and goes in a fraction of a second. This lost world is contrasted even more against normal vision by the way it is shot. Because it captures a moment of intense speed and is captured in black and white, color matters little and it comes to be predominantly about time, subject and shades of light.
This series speaks to me because this artist did not go through a normal photographic career before releasing this work, instead he worked for months and years in order to perfect a technique that when used correctly creates images of such power and such importance that the viewer is left to ogle, speechlessly into the depths of detail of each image. Magyars work with video and sound also inspires me to make higher quality videos and do more with short amounts of sound.
Read an interesting story about him here!
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