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This collection of time stamped photographs from Michael Stryder, covering a 15 year period that began in 1998, are perhaps more personal than we might initially perceive. The light and composition of capturing something at the same time each day takes on an otherworldly character as we search for meaning in the ordinary. Moments that are fleeting and gone, and ones that seem to linger in our vision and our imagination. Did the curtain move gently across the window?
How could so much happen in a minute, and yet so little? The viewer is challenged by Stryder's insistence, that yes, there is more happening in every moment, in every life, in every picture, than we might ever imagine. And by taking this stand, he has given us something hypnotic and somehow cathartic.