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.

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.