My still photography is influenced by the motion, framing and story telling devices of film. I've been taking advantage this influence in the last few years instead of trying to hide it. In the �Brothers� series I took a classical film view-point from the car and put it in the still frame. In one reiteration of the series the single frames from the shoot became an animation but displayed in a frame as a small image instead of as a projection like a film is. In the other series I've alluded directly to the material of film itself and the narrative sequence it automatically creates. The differences between film and photography can be discussed endlessly but instead my intention is to explore some similarities and connections between the two mediums.

INDUSTRY

Film and photography started about fifty years apart but both mediums relied on factory produced items made with precision to exist in popular culture. To the dismay of some artists it has made visual culture accessible to many people at once. Much of the whole world knows certain images like that of Mickey Mouse.

In this way the photograph and more so the film owe their credits not only to the artists who conceptualise the forms they will take but also the people who invent and make the instruments of these mediums. In many ways both are a celebration of industrialised society. Largely it has been musicians that have investigated the connection between art and industry. Groups like �Einst�rzende Neubauten� ( lit. Tearing down new buildings) have used machinery and bits of raw commodities as their musical instruments. DNS � Wasserturm is an examp�e of their musical direction. The aura of glamour surrounding film rejects a view of itself on purely mechanical and industrial terms. Without industry the glamour would not exist. It is an integral part of film and photography.