Stroboscopic Photographs

“My stroboscopic photographs are a collection of self-portraits created using stroboscopic techniques. In the 1930's, Professor Harold Eugene Edgerton transformed the stroboscope from a laboratory instrument to a common device. Stroboscopic art photography was first pioneered by Gjon Mili in the 1940’s to freeze successive actions in a single frame.
Using either flashes of light or mechanical interruption of the shot with a handmade strobocope, these images are captured sequentially rather than instantaneously. By changing the papers used in the mechanical stroboscope and using an early DSLR Camera, I create texture and intentional graininess in certain images.
While this technique has the ability to capture multiple actions in a single frame, I often choose longer exposures to create a more subtle rendering of the sequential actions, distorting the movement in more variety and detail than long exposure alone. I began working with stroboscopy in 2012 and continue to work with different variations of the stroboscope in an ongoing exploration of this technique.”