A photograph is a slice of time, a representation of time but it cannot contain time itself. At least the image cannot contain time itself, the image being out of time and, let's face it, an unreal representation of the event in time. The physical image of course will be affected by time, it will decay and fall to dust. Except these images, which are nothing but light on a screen, electronic data in a file, even less real than ink, dye or silver on paper. A movie we consider to have time, it is a moving image, it progresses in time. Yet a movie is a series of still images taken perhaps at 25 to 30 frames per second. A movie is nothing more than photographs looked at quickly. But what if an individual image could contain time? The images you see were each taken over the period of one second, in a series. Each image reflects the actual movement of the subject, the actual motion of light over sensor for one second. All of it. Each image is then given to you for one second, and then, like the event in time it represents, moves on to the next second, the next image.

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