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Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.

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At this point, it’s not uncommon to see glitches liberated from their natural habitats of video games and VHS tapes in one way or another. But rarely do you see those digital artifacts and the natural world juxtaposed as plainly as they are in these beautiful photographs by Jamie Boulton. Boulton, a digital artist in Birmingham, England, captured the shots at home with a simple projector and a DSLR, using his own body as an irregular, curving canvas. He stumbled across the idea some months back, when he was projecting a glitch onto his arm to see how it might look as a tattoo.

“The pictures were stripped of any artistic frills and reduced to an essentially topographic state, conveying substantial amounts of visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty, emotion and opinion,.”