Big Dark Town

rattle big black bones
in the danger zone
there's a rumblin' groan down below
there's a big dark town
it's a place i've found
there's a world going on
underground
     --Tom Waits

Every photograph taken is an abstraction of reality. No color photograph accurately depicts the range of hues that were in front of the lens. Black and white photographs differ even further from the way we see the world.

Photographs are also a distortion of how we perceive time. When films got fast enough to show us fragments of time -- the athlete caught in a photo finish, how horses really run, the drops of water caught fracturing the sun as the dog shakes itself dry -- all of these tiny slices changed the way we saw the world.

These photos are, in part, an exploration of the other side of time. I'm fascinated by the longer pauses that allow images to drift across the negative and dance themselves into new, unfamiliar shapes.

Let me know what you think of these photos: dae@davidadam.com.

Prints from this series are available for purchase. Please see the purchasing prints page for more information.