Coastal Perspectivalism

2022

This project explores the photographic portrayal of multiple point perspective in singular frames through the use of mass layered exposures from differing perspectives. The images are layered using approximately 300 exposures that are taken while moving along a coastline, distilling hundreds of points of view from a long stretch of coastline looking outward to a singular visualization. This singular visualization as a combination of a vast amount of perspectives depicts a ‘median’ perspective from this stretch of land as an average of every perspective.

The images are taken on perpendicular stretches of road in Wellington, which, as a pairing, creates a spatial relationship between the two images as two compositions of coastline perspectives which both face perpendicularly in real life. For this reason, during test displays, the prints were hung on opposite sides of the room so as to activate the gallery space as a recreation of the Miramar peninsula spatially.

Works

Coastal Perspective 01, (Shelly Bay- Seatoun)