This art project started three years ago on a flea market in New York City where I bought the book "The Great 'Life' Photographers". One of the great photographers in the book is George Silk. He took photos of his family with a strip camera, a technology now better known as slit-scan photography. Fascinated by his story I began with first experimental shots. I was thrilled by the possibilities of this technology - making visible how space changes over a period of time. Before I got the first "good" shot I developped my own turntable with electronic control and the appropriate software to handle the huge amount of data (each work consists of several thousands of single photos). But most of all I had to get a feeling for the best objects.

Slit-Scan Photography - Space over Time

Sometimes it is the colors of a scenery that are fascinating - not the form and not the objectivity, but the colors. In this series I have therefore separated from the objectivity and the form of the images. On the way to the finished works, which give the colors or a leading color more room and attention, I discovered new forms and structures in the extreme 'macro depth' of the pictured object.

'The Color Codes' is a collection of meditative feel-good photo works.


The Color Codes

Graffiti and murals from all over the world

Graffiti and Murals

5 Graffiti near famous Görlitzer-Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Graffiti - Görli-Dragons

Editions

Soul Food

Funkturm Berlin

If you are not very much interested in animals, you may find it peculiar to be interested in how an animal is. But that's exactly what I wanted to know - I wanted to know how my opponent is doing. To ask, "how are you?" is not possible - well, it is possible, but probably not very informative. 
The eyes are known to be the window to the soul. This is why I sought eye contact in this portrait series. Sometimes I had to wait a long time to get that look into their soul, but when it happened I was certainly overwhelmed by the intensity of the moment. I share these precious moments with you in the series Eye-to-Eye.

Eye-to-Eye

'Arctic Blues' belongs to 'The Color Codes' which is a collection of meditative feel-good photo works.

Steffen Freiling