Altered Landscapes

The exploration of interplay between movement and the still image began in 2003. I have always been fascinated by how the camera works, the mechanism and the magic that happens when light enters the camera and exposes the film. I  began to wonder and explore what happens when the film is pulled through the camera while the shutter is open - can I paint with light onto the film, or direct what is exposed? The scale and dimensions of of the photograph (most common 4X6 ratio) also becomes questionable, and one is faced with images that are panoramic in dimension,  through have no wide perspective, but a linear narrative.  

One art critic wrote: ‘Klasmer’s camera with the aid of a motor, turns the device into a cimenatic film camera … Klasmer plays between spacial art and the art of time. The instrument – the camera that is used to freeze time with the use of a shutter and aperture is neutralized. The cancellation of the functions that sift and block the light, together with the motorization turn the camera to an instrument that observes and records time. The result of the moving film is translated to a still print, and again a place of transaction of time and space. In the 3rd state the length of the exposure gets emphasised in the printing of a lengthy panorama.’ (Danny Yahav-Brown)

Altered Landscapes is a series of urban and wilderness photographs taken in various location in the UK, Netherlands, Israel and India. Each photograph when exhibited 20X180cm is just a segment from the whole photograph that is in total approximately 12m in length.