Dialogue – Collaborative portraits
29 July 2018

Liepāja 2018 – A series of double-exposure portraits reflects my exploration of the relationship between myself, as the photographer, and my subjects—my classmates during my master’s program. For each image, I used a 35mm film camera in double-exposure mode. First, I photographed my subject, then handed them the camera, allowing them to point it back at me and take a shot. Each pair of images is combined into a single double-exposure portrait. Sometimes the results align in unexpected, peculiar ways, while other times they uncannily coincide, revealing moments of shared presence or distortion.

buy Lyrica in thailand Further imperfections are derived from a printing process designed to mimic the transitions from photographer to subject and back again. After processing the film, I digitally scanned the images and created digital negatives, which I then manually printed on silver gelatin paper. This process brings a shadowy materiality to the final images, documenting the passage between photographer and subject, and from digital to analog, as we navigate the exchange of gaze and identity through both roles.