Photographer Spotlight: Pelle Cass

"Cass's composite photographs reshuffle time and play with believability through both extreme and subtle compilations. His practice involves taking thousands of pictures on a tripod for an hour or two. Nothing is changed aside from certain things being selected or omitted. In this way, while embracing "a feeling of Dionysian chaos," the images are "truthful" in their own way. Maybe even more so than a conventional photograph in that they contain more information of what occurred in that time/place."

"The slightly more mundane images Cass creates of places around Boston reflect this investment in realism-capturing people doing ordinary things or just going about their day: "I place my camera beside me on a public bench or table-in plain sight but mostly unnoticed-and take thousands of photographs and compile them into a kind of still time-lapse, an hour condensed into a single panoramic image.""

Pelle Cass creates composite panoramic images by photographing a scene repeatedly from a fixed tripod position for an hour or two and then selecting or omitting elements to compile a single image. No physical changes are made to the scene; time and presence are reorganized through selection. The composites play with believability and embrace "a feeling of Dionysian chaos" while asserting a form of truthfulness by containing more information about what occurred. Some works focus on everyday Boston scenes, capturing people engaged in ordinary activities and producing images that feel simultaneously ideal, tragic, and comic.

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