What you are looking at

One photograph.
Six months of sunlight.

Thomas Lafuente makes cameras from beer cans — a pinhole, a sheet of paper, no lens and no shutter. Each one is left facing the sky for half a year, from one solstice to the next, recording every arc the sun traces overhead. The gaps are the cloudy days. The result is a single exposure of time itself.

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The Latitudes

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Where the cans have stood

Seven horizons,
one sun.

Every solargraph is tied to a place a can was left behind — an Arctic fjord, a desert crack, a Tuscan ridge. Follow them across the map.

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Thomas Lafuente

The artist

Thomas Lafuente

Based on planet Earth, Thomas has spent the last decade leaving beer-can cameras across Europe and the Arctic — building each one by hand and trusting it to the weather for half a year at a time.

"I never press a shutter. I just choose a horizon, point a can at the sky, and come back six months later to see what the sun decided to do."

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