Artist Feature: Michael Wesely's Long Exposure Photography Captures

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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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