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AARON HILL
Dogs Playing, Brooklyn Bridge
Man Yelling/Smoke Break
from the Empty City Series
from the Empty City Series
3-hour photo exposure
2-hour photo exposure
47 x 47
47 x 47
2009
2009

From the
Morning Rush Hour at Astor Place
from the Empty City Series
4-hour photo exposure
47 x 47
2009
Collection of Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Aaron Hill grew up in California and lived in Rome, London, and New
York City, all noted urban environments that obscure the land. “Empty
City” is a series of long-exposure film photographs that use the
analog photographic process to erase a city’s inhabitants, congestion,
and noise, leaving the viewer to imagine what has been concealed. The
disconnect between the photograph and the world it represents
subverts photographic realism and draws attention to the role of the
viewer’s imagination. Hill lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he
studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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