OVERLAPPING

This work explores the potential of analog photography by surrendering control. I focused on street photography and simplified my approach to compositing and using 35mm film. I experimented without expectations for the outcome.

Using a $20 automatic point-and-shoot, I tested different ways to shoot multiple exposures. Unlike manual film cameras which allow double exposures by rewinding the frame, the only way to shoot multiple exposures on an automatic camera is to expose an entire roll first, then feed the film back and shoot on top as if the roll is brand new.

This method however makes the frames overlap each other because the camera cannot tell where the roll begins at first exposure, resulting in gapless, continuous frame-in-frame rolls of film. The result is an unpredictable amalgamation of images taken at different times, locations, and contexts. OVERLAPPING is a series of selected crops from the gapless film strips, each telling its own narrative from the multiple photographs within itself.

The goal was never to create perfect and crisp images, but rather to investigate how the medium can co-direct our vision.