Burning Man
Burning Man
Visual Art & Photos
Tomáš Loewy
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2009-05-01

A Year of Life in 9-pix-a-day

info: once you start playing chapter one it will continue playing the subsequent chapters when it reaches the end of the segment (chapters are only used because of technical limitations of the slideshows).
Conceptual Backgrounder of this project:
Think about the last 100 or so days of your life.
What did you do on each and every one of the days since February 21st 2009?
What were the highlights? What would your photographic memory tell you?
You don't remember?

Neither would I...
I admit my memory wouldn't tell me as much as my camera and 1220 images (as of the end of May 2009; it will grow by around 350 images a month until reaching around 4000 photos at the one-year-mark) do. And you can imagine those 1211 images were selected from more than 10,000 photos.

We all know that time flies. There is no way to hold it back, no way to stop time. This is what you see when you look at this work. An unstoppable sequence of days going by at a fast pace, a bit over 1 second per image, 10 seconds per day, around 1100 seconds (that’s 18 minutes) for the past 100 days.

With this project I am and will be capturing the last 11 months of this decade, the 2000s (or ‘00s) and at least the first couple of months of the next decade, the ‘10s. (Who knows, maybe I will continue the project "forever", it is kind of addictive).
These photos will become part of a limited edition 440 page 11x13 art book which will be introduced during Art Basel 2009 in December of 2009: "Miami Beach in the late '00s . visual impressions of the life & times of a hip & glamorous crowd in a fabulous era in an amazing city in the first decade of Century 21"

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