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5 Minutes — (minus) 25 secs

Year2009
MediumDigital camera obscura · print on MDF
VenueAcademiestraat, Ghent

I started experimenting with my digital camera very early. In the darkroom I transformed my lens cap into a pinhole and started to make digital camera obscura selfies.

Using a 5-minute shutter speed, I moved away from the camera about 25 seconds before the shutter would close — which resulted in ghost-like pictures, as one could see right through me. I experimented with the times, resulting in different see-throughs. I printed directly on MDF and presented the works on easels.

Self portraits