There are only so many ways you can capture images of people on the street, but artist Jeff Hodsdon is creating his own stylized aesthetic when it comes to urban portraiture. The artist’s project, The Moments, fuses slow-motion videos captured with a customized iPhone lens with Hodsdon’s impeccable eye for finding NYC’s compelling denizens, resulting in a highly addictive daily image blog.Tree: Highline Park / Portrait: 9th Ave / New York
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Sep 27, 2016 at 9:17am PDT
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A software engineer by day, Hodsdon built his own custom software to condense quick shots into drawn out, slow-motion glimpses of on-the-go New Yorkers. Now in the second year of updating The Moments, Hodsdon originally started the project after feeling unsatisfied with the current state of image-making. “I was discontent with pictures of people on screens. I saw myself and others viewing a lot of photographs on screens. Yet, they were photos from cameras from an era with paper,” the artist tells The Creators Project. “It didn’t make sense to me why they couldn’t be more. I want a portrait to bring a viewer closer to the subject, for that viewer to have a greater understanding and feel closer to someone else.”A video posted by Jeff Hodsdon (@the.moments) on
Sep 25, 2016 at 3:42pm PDT
“I like to think there is a type of photograph that is in between stills and film. I find that not a lot happens in one second of time—but enough happens to give a viewer a greater feeling of connection,” Hodsdon continues. “Sometimes when people laugh, their shoulders go up a little. A still photograph won’t capture that movement. I want my work to celebrate people more honestly and tell more about them than a static image would.”A video posted by Jeff Hodsdon (@the.moments) on
Sep 16, 2016 at 10:33am PDT
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View the near-daily updates of The Moments on the project’s Instagram account. For more of Jeff Hodsdon’s moving portraiture, visit his website.Related:The 'Subwayhands' Photo Series Captures the Complicated Emotions of TransitNever-Before-Seen Diane Arbus Photos Hit the MuseumThe 4 Elements of a Great Candid PhotoA video posted by Jeff Hodsdon (@the.moments) on
Jul 25, 2016 at 9:38am PDT