here are so many things in our daily lives that we see from the same perspective. We are used to looking at the world from human height, at human scale, and on human timescales. This is no coincidence, as most things we interact with are designed for exactly this experience. However, if we take a step back and think about how limited this view is we can start to recognize things that happen around us constantly yet are completely beyond our normal perspective. In his exhibit we present a few examples of what we can learn with a shift in perspective and how the things we take for granted in everyday life can be seen if we take the time to look. We encourage you to touch, play with, and learn from these exhibits and to ask yourself questions as you go. See if you can think about a memory you have about a space and imagine it from a different perspective. Is there a time when you saw something that was right before you the whole time? What other things do we take for granted when we experience the world?

Visual description of working at Bikes Not Bombs.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project featuring a book which alternates pages containing abstract shadowy shapes and reflective sheets that mirror said shapes.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) book filled with photographs of baking cups artfully arranged in unusual environments for comedic effect.

An Advanced Digital Photography (Fall 2005) project consisting of a book with photographs of campus life and text written by students describing their life a Olin College.

Box container with several photographs attached to frames with thread wires, stacked upon each other, creating a layered, web-like presentation.

A student photography project fictionalizing several mundane objects as exotic locations.

A student art project consisting of a scrapbook with images and descriptions of objects found around the Olin College campus that have been abandoned by their original owners or are otherwise placed in peculiar locations.

A book pairing photos of people with photos of food.

Zine collection of Poetry, Prose, and Artwork by Olin College students

I began this project in search of different ways I could capture the world around me as it stands the test of time. As I am nearing a very monumental transition in my life, I can't help but think, "Where has the time gone?"

Time is a fascinating concept, it is constantly change, yet always consistent. Our lives are made up of infinite little moments through which we experience the world. There are times when I wish it would slow down while in others, all I can think about is its passing. I made the decision a few years ago to focus on living in the moment, learning from the past, and aspiring for the future.

This state of mind seeps into my interest in photography as it is a medium that acts as a remote controller with just the pause functionality. We can't stop time, but photographs can preserve an instance albeit in a way that is different than the lived experience.

When I look through the view finder, I am reminded that I represent just one perspective out of a sea of millions. The motivation from this project comes from an interest in slowing down and using photography as a medium to communicate the lens through which I am experiencing my surroundings.

Independent study in photography building a 4x5 film camera.

One reason I wanted to explore high speed was to branch out artistically. In the past, I've specialized in macro still life photographs. Macro embodies the idea that everything is amazing if you look at it closely enough. It makes tiny worlds all around us appear, for a moment, larger than life, stimulating the imagination. To me, the capture of things that are small on the time axis (as opposed to the size axis) seemed analogous but more technically challenging. The \staging" of a transient event is an art of its own. Some, like Reugels, have it down to a science. I don't, but through this work I gained a deep enough understanding of the process to have some consistency of quality in my photographs while exploring different materials.

The goal of this project was to explain the story of producing indigo through history with photography. Indigo was synthesized or used in several ways, including dying using natural indigo, synthesizing indigo with the historic bayer-drewson synthesis, and by generating indigo with transgenic bacteria.

Traditionally, photographs have represented single moments in time, but the photographs in this series represent a compression of discrete moments into a single frame, in a way similar to Peter Funch's Babel Tales series. In each of my images, I've combined up to eighteen different photographs, taken of the same location over a period of about thirty minutes, to create a digital tableau. After removing all human figures from the scene using bits and pieces of several photos, I repopulated the composite with individual characters selected from the original series of photos.