HAMBURG, GERMANY.- Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie presents Jay Mark Johnson - 'Motion Studies', on view through March 31, 2007. Jay Mark Johnson is a film director with broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised and/or directed the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series. Noted for his work in architecture and design, he has projects in the permanent collection of the MOMA (NYC), as well as at the Smithsonian Institution and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Johnson's varied and prolific career also spans theatre and performance art, journalism, live musical performance, and photography. "Motion Studies" is the first major solo show.

"'Motion Studies' focuses on capturing and representing the continuous movements of the body. By isolating discreet gestures, they attempt to develop distinct, fluid delineations of bodily motion. In so doing, the works expand upon existing understandings of both the body's internal motivations and, by extension, its internal nature.

The studies also set out to challenge the normal mechanisms of perception. They use unconventional photographic techniques to schismatically shift the spatial and temporal dimensions of the image. Spatial verticality is preserved. But the horizontal dimension of the image, though it remains photographic, is not spatial but temporal. It represents not the breadth of space but the passage of time. By replacing one photographic dimension while preserving another, the resulting hybrid images are both strange and familiar." (Jay Mark Johnson).