Kathy Vargas

The idea for this series came about when I started teaching the History of Photography. Early Daguerreotypes sometimes include blurs. The exposures were long and the subjects, especially children, often could not hold still – proof of life as opposed to child death photos in which the parents’ arms were filled with stillness.
I began photographing friends in long exposures and asked them to create deliberate motion. The living move. Only the dead hold still for long periods of time.