"What
happens to lovers while they are sleeping?" Schneggenburger wonders in
his artist statement. "Is it a sleeping just next to each other, each on
his own, or is there a sharing of certain places or emotions? Is it a
nocturnal lovers’ dance, maybe a kind of unaware performed tenderness,
or does one turn the back on each other?"
Each picture from "The Sleep of the Beloved" series
was shot as black and white, long-time exposures taken over the course
of six hours. The room with the bed was in the artist's live-in studio —
Schneggenburger would turn on the self-constructed "timer" of the
camera and leave while the couples slept.
The
project began as his thesis work at the University of Applied Arts in
Vienna in 2010, but has since become a long-term project that anyone can take part in
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/time-lapse-pictures-of-couples-sleeping-2013-2?op=1#ixzz2MK6CBWzX
These images have really inspired me to reduce my shutter speed to experiment with some images which could link with emotions such as anxiety and stress ect
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