OVERLAPPING

This work explores the potential of analog photography by surrendering control. I focused on street photography and practiced restraint in my approach, experimenting without specific 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, an automatic camera requires exposing an entire roll first, then reloading it and shooting over it as if it were new.

However, this method causes the frames to overlap because neither the camera nor I can detect where the roll begins on the 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 these seamless film strips, each forming a new narrative from the multiple photographs that compose it.

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