Scan It Don’t Shoot It, Q&A With Gem Barton
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So Scan.It... what motivated you to create this project?
You’re probably thinking, ‘why bother, my digital camera gives me much more freedom.’ And you’d be right. The scanner has many inherent restrictions; size, plane, frame and orientation to name a few. But I see these limitations as a challenge and as an opportunity. Faced with these given formalities, I am pushed to be more creative, this in turn can generate much more dynamic responses. In the face of adversity and all that.
So I developed a series of techniques that allow me to manipulate the capture of ‘reality.’ What I love about ...
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