Ted Spagna

Loads of famous artists have looked into people sleeping and the idea of sleep and dreams; But none of them spent the whole of their lives focusing on just that. Spagna obsessed over People sleeping, he created time lapses shot at a bird's eye view and which took a photo throughout a length of time every...


"I was surprised to see another self that existed in sleep that I didn't know about"

Spagna uses a time lapse camera, his photographs are taken at fixed intervals throughout the night from a bird's-eye view. They are displayed in chronological order, and so the series of images read like a silent film. You can see that he was influenced by Eadweard Mugbridge, and movement. He photographs couples, children, animals and lone figures all dancing within their sheets. The results show a human vulnerability as in a way we are most ourselves as we are unclouded by facades and pretenses. The photographs show an intimacy, as the subjects are psychologically naked.