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Information about Keith Seaman Photography, Fresno CA, a local and international commercial photographer

Keith Seaman of Fresno CA is currently working on personal photography with continued emphasis on his Driveby series.

The Driveby

About 20 years ago I became fascinated with the phenomenon of parallax. Parallax is a visual experience that occurs while moving through the world in our cars, buses and trains: as we peer through the windows of our moving vehicles, objects nearest us blur by while those distant remain more focused, seemingly moving more slowly.  My attempt to replicate that experience photographically resulted in a series of moving panoramas I call The Driveby.

The Driveby process involves shooting sequential digital images from a moving vehicle, either as driver or passenger, then assembling selected frames in Photoshop. Most Driveby arrangements are panoramic but some have ended up as triptychs and other arrangements.

I eventually added high speed flash at dusk which reverses the Driveby effect. Without flash, foreground elements blur while backgrounds remain more focused. With flash, foregrounds are frozen while background elements, especially those against the sky, are blurred.

During the covid lockdown I began to rethink Driveby images.  I began reassessing my somewhat documentarian approach and looking for more creative opportunities within the images including the alternate color space of the reverse image.  My most recent work reflects that exploration.

The new images will be on display in a solo show named Flip Side at Fig Tree Gallery in Fresno, CA for the month of September, 2024.

The Driveby series was featured in American Photgraphy's Pro Photo Daily on March 3, 2021:  https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/27979/personal-projects-keith-seamans-drivebys-are-m.html .   At the end of that year, the story was featured again in Pro Photo Daily  as one of the year's highlights.

The Driveby series was featured in BuzzFeed News on March 6, 2021 in the "10 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View Of The World" section:  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/photo-stories-march-6 and on BuzzFeed's Instagram feed @buzzfeedphoto:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CMPgQX4JyEI/

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