The Extended Moment is an ongoing photographic series exploring how time, space, and human presence can be expanded within a single image.
Rather than isolating a decisive instant, I treat the photographic moment as elastic, shaped as much by what precedes it as by what follows. Each image brings together multiple temporal fragments, allowing different moments to coexist and unfold across the surface of the photograph.
The series is realised through a self-devised, fully analogue process that resists digital montage and post-production compositing. Time is accumulated directly within the camera itself. This approach produces images that extend horizontally and require physical navigation, encouraging the viewer to move alongside the image and encounter people and events at eye level.
The works are produced at a scale that emphasises duration and embodied looking. Viewers are invited to slow down, linger, and traverse the image over time, constructing meaning through sustained observation rather than immediate recognition.
Developed across distinct locations and social situations, The Extended Moment examines how shared environments unfold over time—how gestures, movements, and relationships shift as moments accumulate. Each chapter engages with a specific context while remaining part of a continuous exploration of duration and presence.
By extending the photographic moment, I am interested in what becomes visible when time is no longer collapsed into a single instant. The work resists simplification, allowing ambiguity, simultaneity, and complexity to remain present within the image. The viewer is not positioned as a passive witness, but as an active participant in the construction of meaning over time.
The series spans Europe and the United States and is currently being developed in multiple chapters.
Artist’s note
“You want to see what happens around the frame… A moment is shaped by its before and after.”
“We don’t know what we want, but we all know what we don’t want.”