Photos from the Inside

TED KINSMAN MADE THE DECISION MORE high school physics teacher. “I have a lot of fun with it,” than a dozen years ago to take photos of stuff he says. “I want to teach young kids that science is out that’s “sciencey” and sell it to the general there and it’s cool. And I think I’m doing pretty well.” population. He’s accomplished this by using a vari- Kinsman’s X-ray photos recently traveled from his ety of techniques — close-up macros of snowflakes, home in Rochester, N. Y., to Alameda, Calif., for a infrared and time-lapse photography, even X-rays — special exhibit. Of particular interest to Kinsman are and he says, “I always break even ... or lose money.” the plastic toy guns. “When you look at the X-rays,

His time-lapse images are seen in many nature whoa, it looks exactly like a gun. Some of the toys are documentaries, and he’s one of a handful of people quite graphic and look like something else,” he says. doing serious infrared photography. If you’re watching “I like showing people what’s inside this object or a flower bloom, there’s a good chance Kinsman took that object. Seed pods, shoes, duck decoys. So people the images. With two or three cameras working for can see exactly what’s inside — the defects, recycled him at home, he goes off to his other full-time job as a materials. It becomes a totally wide-open world.”

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Photography by Ted Kinsman

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