essential urbanism

Tilt shift photography utilizes a tilt-shift lens that sits off center of the sensor plane producing photos with an extremely skewed depth-of field. When these blurred photos are strung together in a high-speed time-lapse fashion, the effect is a miniaturization of reality.

The tilt-shift effect demonstrated in these videos of cities, allows for an unusual reading of city. The depth-of-field effect allows a unique focus that combined with time-lapse focuses on the micro movements of people and vehicles in a still macro built environment.

The miniaturization of reality allows the everyday city to be re-imagined.
New York

London

Vancouver

San Francisco