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The concept of ‘doubles’ or ‘film-swaps’ is well known within the Lomographic Society International, an online community based around the love for analogue photography, where members have been interacting and engaging in all sorts of international projects in recent years.
For my first film-swap I decided to post a note on my online Lomohome announcing that I would do a film-swap with visitor number 7777 if they were to accept the proposal by leaving a message in my guest book. It happened to be the wonderful Lamia Haddad from Provo in the USA. Without deciding anything beforehand we each shot a roll of film and sent them to each other in order to shoot over each other’s rolls without knowing what has already been exposed onto the film.
The results are double-exposed photos containing elements of two different cultures, different worlds and different ways of seeing. What interests me is the coincidental factor involved in creating these double-exposed, multi-layered frames. Sometimes the two pictures seem to fit so perfectly over each other that you cannot comprehend the luck or coincidence of what emerged out of that little plastic camera loaded with internationally exposed film that has randomly been shot by different photographers.
1+1=3, encounters group exhibition at gallery Krea, Ghent, May 2009.
Presented by Encounters Productions
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Double with gerard-jan claes
Triple with Stephan Kaps (Germany), Tom Ashor Bhaan (Slovakia)
Quadruple with Charlotte Devoise-lambert (France), Dirk Such (Germany), Wee Chong Hooi (Malaysia)
Double with Lamia Haddad (USA)