Ruben PhilipsenParking garage Blue Boulevard (Quartier Blue), Hasselt, Belgium, 2023.<br>
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On my way to the museum Z33 in Hasselt my eyes were met by the circular lighting on the ceiling of the parking garage Blue Boulevard. A perfect opportunity for a time-lapse photograph.<br>
Time-lapse photography has been one of my most favorite techniques ever since Art Academy. Back then digital camara’s ofcourse didn’t exist. The number of exposures on a roll of film was thirty-six and once it was developed, prints had to be made from the negatives using an enlarger in a darkroom. It meant you had to think ahead to accomplish something satisfying. You had to really focus on what you wanted to achieve. Analogue photography taught me to care about image composition at the moment of taking a picture. Digital photography creates very good quality photos and the process is fast, but sometimes it seems to lack soul because the making process in many instances takes place during post production. This means photographs become an imagined, constructed and at times often artificial reality rather than a realtime registration. Analogue photography taught me to value moments more, to shoot when they are worth it, to wait, to think ahead, to dedicate more effort and knowledge in to achieving what I want. With film photography, you really learn how movement and light works to produce an image, it’s a more hands on personal process.<br>
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The passing of time made visible through the physical act of taking a photograph whilst moving the camera has a beauty of its own, a purity. It’s like a lake utterly silent, subdued and stilled.<br>
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