Long Exposure Series
Archival Pigment Prints
24x32 in
2011

Using location data and Google Earth, I choreographed & recorded an aerial tour that traces trajectory of nuclear detonations
within the Nevada Test Sites beginning with Able in 1951 and ending with the last US nuclear test, Divider in 1992. The long
exposure photographs are developed while Google Earth flies over and zooms in on each site of nuclear detonation within the series
with the camera pointed at the computer screen screen. The number of detonations in each Series determines the length of exposure,
approaching total whiteout at two minutes. The length of exposure ranges from under thirty seconds for the Ranger Series 1951 that saw
five detonations to four minutes for the Storax Series 1962-6.

 

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