Thomas Sayers Ellis photography

I see the women and men in my pictures as swimming shapes glued to time. I want to say that time is to photography as light is to painting, but that is not an exact truth. Light is time (in photography) and time is light in the universe. The subjects of the photographs swim in this belief, and if there is any universe (any amount of unknown) in the image, in any picture, it certainly cannot be framed or contained—well, not for long. The men and women in my photographs want to escape form. They want space.