Motus
Not frozen moments, but moving echoes. Motus captures the body in flux—between gesture and memory, rhythm and breath.
Movement is not always speed. It can be memory, tension, or repetition. Motus looks at the body’s motion as an emotional trace, not a literal action. These are not pictures of dancers or specific gestures; they are photographs of a body becoming something else.
Burak Bulut Yıldırım captures bodies caught in transition, in frames that seem to breathe rather than freeze. A raised arm never settles, a hip blurs in soft light, a figure turns away just before changing. Here, stillness is never static—it pulses. Motus is what comes after a movement and what comes before a change. It exists in the space between control and release, memory and the present moment.
The series draws on the history of long exposure, blur, and photographic movement studies. It brings to mind the work of pioneers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Barbara Morgan, along with the visual style of slow cinema. The goal, however, is not to document action, but to suggest a feeling of flow.
Each limited edition print invites the viewer not to interpret, but to feel—to remember how the body holds memories before the mind does.
