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Falling Paper
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This project began as an assignment from Rick Ueda at Art Center at Night: take a picture of a sheet of paper. The only restriction was that it could not be crumpled. (Apparently the first reaction of many photography students when confronted with this problem is to take artistic pictures of a wrinkled, crumpled ball.)

I was inspired by a Blue Man Group video called Exhibit 13, which features scraps of paper floating down against a dark background. So simple, so beautiful, so powerful.

My photographs were shot using long shutter speeds to capture the motion of the paper in flight. They reveal a complexity that one would not expect from such a banal event. Each frame is unique and improbable.

These images were shown at Backscatter, Create:Fixate's 2007 photography show. As a result, I have a bunch of 30"x20" LightJet prints mounted on aluminum sitting in storage. Let me know if you want to buy one. :)

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Exhibit 13
An inspirational video.
Create:Fixate
The organization that showed this work.
Harry Kao – harry@hairycow.name