Sometimes I imagine the slowest movie.
I attempt to reduce it to a single frame...
one that still renders movement and conversation.
ejh

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Nightly Things

Eric J Henderson shoots primarily in nighttime long exposures and exclusively with a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye found and bought for $5 off the street in Harlem, 2003 at 125th and Park Avenue, the site of the now defunct "junkies' bazaar," a spot where a few guys would gather and sell whatever they found on the street that day. "I had never shot anything before finding it as I was not a photographer and had no particular interest in photography. I just thought the Brownie would make a cool art deco paperweight. It took over my life after that."

"I use the Brownie camera exclusively, but not for nostalgia. It's an honest and current tool that allows me to compose freely in multiple exposures (by not advancing the frame), and in long exposures, mostly using the earth as my tripod. I am moved by the design and its 1950 art deco 1950 character, but I'm intrigued more by the idea of technology often advancing not because we've exhausted it, but rather because we simply want something new. When we want new things for the sake of what's new, we must, by definition, leave behind some undiscovered utility.

"I want to find the images that lie in the infinite space between the parameters of a nominally outdated technology. In that sense, I'm reminded of the infinite conundrum of a number line: You can get from "1" to "2," but only practically, not mathematically.

"The intensely manual nature of the camera, no automated settings, allows it to become whatever I am and a natural extension of who I am and what I'm thinking."