A selection of recent work by Massachusetts-based photographer Pelle Cass. Cass’s composite photographs reshuffle time and play with believability through both extreme and subtle compilations. His practice involves taking thousands of pictures on a tripod for an hour or two. Nothing is changed aside from certain things being selected or omitted. In this way, while embracing “a feeling of Dionysian chaos,” the images are “truthful” in their own way. Maybe even more so than a conventional photograph in that they contain more information of what occurred in that time/place. The slightly more mundane images Cass creates of places around Boston reflect this investment in realism—capturing people doing ordinary things or just going about their day:

“I place my camera beside me on a public bench or table–in plain sight but mostly unnoticed–and take thousands of photographs and compile them into a kind of still time-lapse, an hour condensed into a single panoramic image. The technique is a way for me to make jokes, quips, and comments in the process of rearranging time and space. I get excited when a mysterious alchemy arises, neither wholly fact nor wholly fiction–a new subjectivity that sees the world as ideal, tragic, and comic all at once.”