Dynamic Landscapes

Dynamic 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 actually a segment from a photograph that is in totals approximately 12m in length. 

The exploration and interplay between movement and the still image began in 2003. Using stills cameras and negative film, I took about breaking the cameras mechanism to turn it into a tool that can create continuous photographs over the full length of the film.

These photographs play with our perception of movement, stillness, narrative and the concept of the photograph and its dimensions.

One art critic wrote: ‘Klasmer’s camera with the aid of a motor, turns the device into a cinematic 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 neutralised. The cancellation of the functions that sift and block the light, together with the motorisation 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)

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Fishing in Acco

On the Road Again

Deserted Land

Street Corner

London Snow

Dead Sea Pan

Kandy Craze