film-strip (Whitehall 9.12.10)

A frieze-format photographic print captured at the London student fees protests in November 2010. Using a photographic camera in the manner of a film camera, Hamann captured the dynamics of demonstrators moving through Whitehall producing semi-abstract images that retain the character of the moment. For the duration of the exposure the celluloid moves past the lens in the hand-held camera, mirroring the movement of the crowd. This process abstracts and compresses the action revealing both chaos and order, yet details are enough to fix the image as a record of the real event.

The photograph was featured as part of the Uncontainable: Broken Stillness exhibition that incorporate either custom written software or hacked packages to draw attention to the role of image-making in contemporary visual arts. The works manipulate data to create images that reside between the moving image and stills of painting and photography. The exhibition was part of the Official Parallel Program of the 12th Istanbul Biennale.

Film-strip (Whitehall 9.12.10) was previously shown at Salisbury Art Centre.