Ready, Shoot, Snap!
California-based photographer Alan Sailer is the author of photos in which he captures objects just moments after they’ve exploded.
Namely, the 54-year-old artist shoots objects with a pellet gun making them explode and then photographs them. He photographs the images in his darkroom from a distance of some twenty centimeters, setting the camera to react a second after the shot. Sailer photographs with a homemade flash.
The objects he chooses to act as protagonists of his photo-escapades vary in nature, thus the photographer records the “instant death” of full glasses of wine, dolls, New Year’s jewelry, fruit and other various groceries.
We featured a project also involving a rifle as an element in producing art, namely, Walton Creel’s “punctured” pictures which we covered here, while the concept of rapidly shooting inimitable moments of decomposition is also portrayed by the Japanese photographer Shinichi, who documents spilled liquid.
You can find more on unusual photographs here.
