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The German artist Michael Wesely is an accomplished photographer, with a penchant and skill in photographing extraodinarily long scenic exposures. Accomplished with the aid of his custom-built pinhole camera, Wesely currently is known to have some of the longest exposed photographs ever recorded, capturing the light of his objects for up to 3 years.

In 2001 he was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to use his unique technique to record the re-development of their building. He set up four cameras in four different corners and photographed the destruction and re-building of the MoMa until 2004 - leaving the shutter (the holes) open for up to 34 months!

These are but a few of his accomplishments:

Open Shutter Project - as commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art







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The photo below was taken over almost 14 months at the Leipziger Platz in Berlin - which at the time
together with the Potsdamer Platz - formed one of the biggest construction sites in the world.



The sun traces in the sky give the images such a painting like feeling. Very surreal to see the
movement of the sun - or more precisely the movement of the earth around the sun in such a way.







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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi