The “Millennium Camera,” as its name suggests, is an art piece with a functional purpose. Its objective is to capture the evolving landscape of Tucson, Arizona over the next 1,000 years through an incredibly long-exposure photograph. Created by Jonathan Keats, a research associate at the University of Arizona, this experimental pinhole camera seeks to stimulate people’s imagination about the future.
According to Keats:
“Most people have a pretty bleak outlook on what lies ahead. It’s easy to imagine that people in 1,000 years could see a version of Tucson that is far worse than what we see today, but the fact that we can imagine it is not a bad thing. It’s a good thing, because if we can imagine that, then we can also imagine what else might happen, and therefore it might motivate us to take action to shape our future.”
Image credits: Christopher Richards, University of Arizona Communications Department
