Nicolas Reusens is a SONY collaborating photographer and wildlife filmmaker with more than fifteen years of experience, specializing in high-speed and multiflash photography, through which he has portrayed some of the fastest animals on the planet in mid-flight, jump, or sprint. In recent years, he has brought that same fascination with time into documentaries and ultra slow-motion cinematography, revealing what the human eye can never fully perceive.
During this SONY-sponsored talk, he will take us on a journey through high-speed wildlife photography and ultra slow-motion documentaries to discover what happens to a hummingbird or a bat between one frame and the next. A presentation that explores the two extremes of the same obsession: time.
We will experience a journey spanning more than fifteen years devoted to nature photography with speed as its central theme. We will discover how high-speed photography freezes events that happen too quickly for the human eye to perceive — the beating wings of a hummingbird, the flight of a bat, the leap of a frog — and how ultra slow-motion video, in contrast, stretches moments that unfold too fast for us to appreciate their full complexity. Two techniques that are, ultimately, nothing more than ways of stealing time from nature in order to reveal it to the viewer.
Through his own images and videos, the talk explores the technical and creative process behind these two ways of photographing and filming the invisible, with the ultimate goal of changing how audiences relate to the natural world around them.
