IMP/QLR

The IMP/QLR is a quad-lens reflex system designed for optical displacement, temporal misalignment, and perceptual instability. Its vertically stacked lenses operate in tandem, each one capturing a slightly staggered perspective, feeding into a synchronized parallax relay that fractures conventional spatial and time aligned relationships. A tiered assembly disrupts light pathways, introducing phase shifts that scramble depth, motion, and time. The result is not a photograph in the traditional sense being a singular moment in time, but an image that exists in multiple states at once—layered, stretched, and subtly spanning moments longer than commonly accepted ‘long exposures’ as the exposure spans both time AND distance in the same frame without blur. Rather than one exposure over-time, these exposures are more accurately thousands of exposures over-distance collated in one frame. Faces appear displaced, objects seem to vibrate between positions, and landscapes refuse to conform to their sources.

The QLR does not simply record a moment. Depth is no longer reliable. Time does not move cleanly forward. Photographs captured with the IMP/QLR are echoes of something real, but they arrive damaged—imperfect transmissions from a world slightly adjacent to our own.

Use with caution. Some images do not settle. Some distortions do not resolve. Some fractures cannot be mended.

2025