Transit Zones interrogates conceptual and theoretical issues concerning the notion of nomadic transience, where movement, stasis and the peripatetic state converge with time. This photographic based research examines the relationship between the still frame and the moving image and the visual metamorphosis from realism to abstraction in the spatial and temporal dimensions of terrestrial places and non-places. Transit Zones identifies isolates, preserves and presents a moment taken from a continuum; a journey into contemporary spaces to engage viewers at a visceral level. Still or static photographic images within Transit Zones observe the state of transit and the movement encountered in transit; inscribing this state of being somewhere else, in another country, another time and place, taking a momentary glimpse of the world, and seeing it phenomenologically to make meaning of the experience. As John Berger states, the true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. One might argue that photography is as close to music as to painting. Objects recorded in any photograph (from the most effective to the most commonplace) carry approximately the same weight, the same conviction. What varies is the intensity with which we are made aware of the poles of absence and presence. Between these two poles photography finds its proper meaning. The most popular use of the photograph is as a memento of the absent. Here the state of transit or peripatetique, by its very nature, transforms the real into the state of the unknown, offering a dreamlike quality, as the past resonates in the now. As anthropological places of consumption and communication are photographed, we are presented with a memory, a new reality, translated through movement. Transit Zones is this state of transit. Central to this research are the symbiotic relationship between the still frame and the moving image, stasis and movement, time and motion, past and present and the selected moment of transience revealed by the narrative of the photograph. The affect of evolving technologies on the transmission of the image and the symbiotic relationship between travel, movement, speed and perception revealing how nomadic wanderings can change our perception of time. The visual presentation and preservation of time is pivotal within Transit Zones research, from the pictorial to abstraction and stasis to movement and the relationship with time and photographic representation.