Photographs in motion

A single photograph, gently brought to life — a breath, a blink, the smallest turn of the head. Five seconds each, with music. Nothing is invented: the face is the one in the photograph, and the expression is the one the family already knows.

$49 per photograph · three for $129. Delivered ready to play on any phone, watermarked with the studio mark. Suitable on its own, or as the moving moments inside a longer tribute film.

A photograph, moving

What the effect looks like with nothing else added — no titles, no cutting, no story. One print, five seconds, and the small movement the picture would have had if the camera had kept running.

Product Code:EOL-PM-013 · Photograph in motion Add this type to cart

The new bicycle

A summer afternoon on a suburban pavement — the striped shirt, the photographer’s own shadow falling into the bottom of the frame. He breathes, the hedge stirs behind him, and the picture comes slowly closer. Five seconds from a single print, under a quiet guitar bed, with no titles and no cutting. A studio demonstration piece, not a client’s photograph.

Product Code:EOL-PM-014 · Photograph in motion Add this type to cart

The teacup

An armchair, a wall of framed grandchildren, a cup held in both hands. She breathes, she blinks, and she looks up. Every line on her face is the one that was in the photograph — the enlargement is done with the face left alone, which is why the wrinkles are still there. A studio demonstration piece, not a client’s photograph.

Product Code:EOL-PM-015 · Photograph in motion Add this type to cart

Forty years in this kitchen

A man in his own kitchen, one hand on the back of a chair, his grandchildren’s drawings behind him on the fridge. He came a long way to stand there and the photograph says nothing about it, which is the point — it is just a Tuesday, and somebody took his picture. A studio demonstration piece, not a client’s photograph.

Into the Night Sky

The longest form of this: one photograph, brought to life and carried all the way to a close. The child is not redrawn and he is not cut out of his own picture — he is the boy in the photograph, and he begins to walk. He goes up the path toward his own front door, the daylight leaves, the stars come out, and he is gone into them. Twenty-three seconds, ending on his name and his dates. One instrument, no narration. Two settings; the picture is identical and families choose by ear.

Product Code:EOL-PM-011 · Photograph to film Add this type to cart

Into the Night Sky — cello

Photograph to motion. One family photograph becomes twenty-three seconds: the child walking away up his own front path, the day going out around him, then his name and his dates against the stars. Unaccompanied cello, no voice. The cello is the darker of the two settings and the one most families ask for when the film is for a child.

Product Code:EOL-PM-012 · Photograph to film Add this type to cart

Into the Night Sky — saxophone

The same film set to solo saxophone. Warmer and rounder than the cello, and it carries the long quiet stretches more easily. Suits an adult, or a family who would rather the film had a voice of its own.

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Pets

The same piece for an animal. The camera never moves and the animal never leaves the frame — the moment it does, it stops being their photograph. Priced the same.
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