Gallery: Mesmerizing GIFs Show Cities Passing From Day to Night

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    Fong Qi Wei
    01

    Chinatown-Sunset-640

    The GIFs from Time In Motion are made from the same source material as Qi Wei's previous project, Time Is a Dimension.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    02

    Glassy-Sunset

    Each vertex and frame in the images represents a single moment in time at the same location, taken between a four-hour period around sunset.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    03

    Changi-Beach-Sunrise-640

    Most of the photos in the series were taken in the photographer's home country in Singapore.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    04

    Tanah-Lot-Sunset-Fast-1k

    Different GIFs in Time In Motion use the format in different ways -- in some, the frames flicker chronologically, in others the times represented shift around to create unique effects.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    05

    Sunset-Bund-1k-sm

    GIF-ing the original images took a total of four months to complete.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    06

    This-one

    Whereas Time Is a Dimension allowed for the contemplation of each individual shard, Time In Motion is more about the overall effect of seeing the different moments move against one another.
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    Fong Qi Wei
    07

    Orange-Crossandra-Sunset-1k

    Fong Qi Wei likes to use these images as a jumping off point for asking questions about how we perceive time itself.
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