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Ari Salomon Fine Art Photography

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March 24, 2012

Motion Studies: Statement

In Motion Studies, I create abstract street photographs by using a slow shutter speed while intentionally moving the camera. Sometimes the movement comes from my surroundings—like being on a moving train—or from the subject itself. These images are typically captured at night, using available light sources, and are minimally manipulated in post-processing.

Through this technique, I explore the relationship between motion and time, graphically exposing the hidden rhythms and patterns of the material world. The camera’s movement traces my navigation through the environment, revealing something unseen. I am particularly interested in the balance between chaos and control: the unpredictability of a moving camera versus the precision gained through patient experimentation.

This series also investigates the qualities of light in motion: how a light source might flicker, vibrate, or intersect with others, and whether it reveals or obscures architectural shapes. By capturing these dynamic details, I aim to comment on the nature of perception. The work highlights elements that our eyes register but our brains typically filter out, offering an insight into how we experience light, movement, and the world around us. What else do we see that is not really there? Or what else is not seen?

I present the images as light boxes, where the high dynamic range and glow of the backlighting add a new layer to the work, enhancing the vivid and ephemeral quality of the movement.

Motion Studies Dissected
In this evolution of the series, I am “Dissecting” the images into smaller pieces to explore how they interact with themselves and bring to life a new kind of motion.

 

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カメラを持つ手を素早く振り動かすことで、Motion Studiesシリーズは作られています。ストリートフォトが主な被写体で、露出度やシャッタースピードを変化させています。私の手そのものは固定されつつ、走っている電車に乗りながら同様にシャッターを切る、という作品もあります。ほとんどが夜に様々な街の灯りを捉え、できるだけデジタル処理を避けて制作しています。数多くの写真を撮り、手のわずかな動きや露出の度合いを変えることでどのようなビジュアルストーリーが作り出されれるかを常に模索してしています。物質化社会に潜むリズムやパターン(=ムーブメントと時間)を、カメラのナビゲーションにより可視化しています。

 

実験を繰り返して得られた経験と、カメラを揺り動かす手の間に生まれるカオスからどのようにバランスを得るか、というのも毎回の課題です。自分の手の動きが光源そのものをつまびらかにもします:点滅する光源であるか、それとも振動する光か?物体の形を明らかにする光か、それともぼんやりさせるものか?また、私たちの脳ではフィルターされてしまう光の動きも、可視化することでヒトの知覚についても考えさせられます。

 

今回制作したシリーズでは、イメージを断片的に小さく切ることで、どのようにそれぞれのピースが関係を作り合い、どのような新しい命がここから生まれるかを実験しています。 

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Ari Salomon is a fine art photographer working in San Francisco.

Recent Exhibitions

  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award
  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto
  • A Measure of Uncertainty at Harvey Milk Photo Center
  • Change at the Magnes Collection
  • Pingyao International Photography Festival

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  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award

    4/18 – 5/17, 2026, Solo Exhibition

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

    4/21 – 5/3, 2026

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You are witnessing a quintessential Finnish univer You are witnessing a quintessential Finnish university tradition: student orientation and “appro” events.
Early September marks the start of the academic year at Tampere University and TAMK (Tampere University of Applied Sciences). You are seeing thousands of new and returning students participating in orientation week activities and citywide orientation rallies (fuksi suunnistus).
What to Know About the Tradition
 * The Colorful Overalls (Haalarit): The boiler suits or overalls are the official uniform of Finnish university students. The color indicates their field of study—for example, red for medicine, dark blue for computer science, yellow for psychology, or white for business.
 * The Fabric Patches: Students customize their overalls over their entire academic career by sewing on embroidered patches collected from events, student guilds, and parties.
 * The “Treasure Hunt”: The small groups you see navigating the city with maps or phones are participating in an orientation checkpoint rally. Groups complete funny challenges, trivia, or team-building games at stations hosted by older students across parks and public squares to earn points and collectible patches.
Walking through @backlight_fi in Tampere, Finland Walking through @backlight_fi in Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮 — one of the Nordic region’s longest-running photography festivals (since 1987). A little tour, artist by artist.

Grateful to have connected with @tasumaniemi (Executive Director, Nykyaika/Backlight), Liisa Mäkinen (festival producer), and artist-curator Anna Ruth of @akkigalleria — whose “Art without Transportation” project is producing one of the installations

Incredible work on view from @angelo_katerina  @jo_duck  @davidellingsenphoto @joelr.jj @lecercle @andreduane @rafael.roncato @areyoushure_ @timowright @sheungyiuphoto @aminyosefi  and Jakob Ganslmeier (@jakob_ganslmeier ) of Ganslmeier & Zibelnik.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Nykytaiteen muse Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma @kiasmamuseum  so great to see Finnish artists and Sami artists and other “ friends “
@batrayz amazing exhibition of red, white and blu @batrayz  amazing exhibition of red, white and blue frozen unfree sea life. There’s a lot happening just under the surface @small.works.sf 

The Gallery is upstairs from the beautiful framing shop and I don’t know how long the exhibition will be up for, but it just opened tonight so contact them and go check it out
Announcing! I will have a new project for this exh Announcing! I will have a new project for this exhibition in January 

Shifting Worlds: A Photography Exchange

January 9 – March 28, 2027
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek @bedfordgallery 

移りゆく世界

Shifting Worlds brings together artists from the Bay Area Photographers Collective @bapcsf and Samurai Foto @samurai.foto from Japan in a dialogue about movement and impermanence. Across geographies, these photographers attend to a world in constant transition, where light shifts, environments evolve, and change is the only constant. Curated by @artalatrinca
Two wonderful solo shows @500cappstreet by @andy_ Two wonderful solo shows @500cappstreet  by @andy_vogt_studio who saved a discarded door from the house and brought it to life on the deck. And @amyclairet who brings beauty from distressed and discarded objects in a poetic way. Best show of the year.
Great show ending today - congratulations @ishancl Great show ending today - congratulations @ishanclemenco for finding the pieces and putting them together
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