The Extended Moment is an ongoing photographic project about how people come together in shared space. My photographs show a period, not a moment. Each image is built from multiple exposures recorded directly onto a single negative, so moments layer and drift across the frame. An accumulation, not one instant, but many, collapsed into one.
This work treats the camera less as a way of stopping time and more as a way of collecting it. I am less interested in the decisive moment than in everything before and after it. What happened a minute before? Two minutes after? The result is complexity without resolution: a compass, not a map.
The process is entirely analogue and entirely in-camera. No digital manipulation, no compositing, no post-production. Working with medium format film cameras from the 1940s and 50s, time is accumulated within the camera itself. The images extend horizontally and are produced at a scale that requires physical navigation. You move alongside the work, encountering people and events at eye level, constructing meaning through duration rather than immediate recognition.
The series is structured in chapters, each engaging a distinct social context while remaining part of a continuous exploration of duration, presence, and collective life. Into the Streets followed protest and political rallies, collective movement, collective purpose. Escape covers festivals and mass celebration, from Oktoberfest to raves in London to St Patrick's Day in Dublin, collective joy, collective release. A third chapter, Common Ground, is now in development, turning towards shared labour and the traces people leave behind.
The series spans Europe and the United States and is continuing to grow.
"You want to see what happens around the frame… A moment is shaped by its before and after."