In A Slow Walk for Longplayer, Ohad Fishof crossed the London Bridge on the longest day of the year in 2005. The act began in the early morning rush hour and continued for 9 hours, 43 minutes and 25 seconds. The walk produced a radical contrast between the city and the accelerated elements within it—cars, pedestrians, airplanes, trains, etc.—and the slow-moving body. Instead of photographic techniques which enable deceleration for the purpose of observing details, as customary in scientific video photography, in Fishof’s work the body itself performs the slowing within the space it occupies. It allows for a different type of observation of high-speed urban life, accentuating every basic element of existence (step, breath, turning of the gaze) by stretching it over a long duration. The transformation of basic nuances takes the foreground and is further reinforced by the accelerated pace of life around.
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