Sequential Images - A story

 Sequential Images - A story

My main idea for the second post about Sequential Images was to plan and create the story. 

I did research about story-telling photographers and I found interesting images of Duane Michals. 

Duane Michals - The spirit leaves the body

Duane Michals began making sequences of narrative pictures in the late 1960s, imagining metaphysical topics like memory, desire, and mortality. In the opening to his 1976 book, Real Dreams, he remarked, "I believe in the imagination." "It's immensely more essential what I can't see than what I can." Michals uses double exposure to conjure a ghostly apparition in The Spirit Leaves the Body, resurrecting the ethereal iconography of nineteenth-century spirit photography in a new lyrical setting. 

Those images, in my opinion, represents the relationship between something seen and something unseen. It is mysterious. In response to Michals' art, I went to the park to find my own inspiration. I think observing nature often shows us something that is not visible at first glance, in particular small animals and plants. I was not surprised this time either. 

Contact sheet 

I took photos with my Samsung Smartphone using automatic setting. First, in my photos, we can see a star seen from a distance, but when we get closer, we see a squirrel that was previously invisible. If I put few photos in order I can see the story about invisible squirrel. I'm happy that I was able to take more than twenty pictures. What I would do differently for the next time is to take better quality camera for example Canon Camera and wait for a sunny day to make better quality images.

Sources:
Met Museum Art (2021) Available at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/294772
(Accessed: 12 October 2021)