In Transit #25, by Diego Kuffer
Around 80 years ago, scientists discovered that in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, atoms, electrons and photons can exist in more than one place at a time. To some quantum theorists, this would imply that if the building blocks that make up everything around us—including ourselves—occupy more than one place in time and space, then everything around us (including ourselves) could and should exist in multiple, parallel universes.
Heavy stuff, I know, and likely not taken too seriously by those who clearly observe only one reality. But I was reminded of this perplexing possibility in viewing Contender Diego Kuffer's series In Transit. In the images, the pixellated cubes contain different moments from the same scene, lending itself to the possibility of alternate occurrences within a given parameter. However, Kuffer makes no claims to be taking on Hugh Everett III's quantum theories in his series, but rather was inspired by filmmaking techniques, photomontage, cubism and—of most importance to the photographer—a moment in time.
In Transit #12, 2010 by Diego Kuffer
Of the composites, the photographer explains:
Photography only lets you capture instants (even long exposures are only blurred instants). So, I hacked the idea of photography, mixing together many photos of the same scene into a single one, slicing and dicing the images and putting them back together, chronologically. I call the grammar behind it "chrono cubism."
Likely referencing David Hockney's photomontage work, and even Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, Kuffer's "chrono cubist" works get to the root of the passing of time in a particular space, in effect putting snippets of a time-lapse video in one digitized frame.
In Transit #23, 2010 by Diego Kuffer
Brazilian photographer Diego Kuffer originally majored in business and worked in marketing for 10 years before pursuing a post graduate degree in Psychoanalytic Semiotics. He then "gave all that up to become a photographer," having studied photography at Escola Panamerica de Arte in Sao Paulo. His series In Transit has been making the blogosphere rounds, and he has exhibited works in Brazil.