Multiple Exposures

2024-2025

A series of black and white multiple exposure film photographs.

Using film as my medium, I layer frames to merge human subjects with urban landscapes, creating compositions that intertwine personal identity and place. Film’s grainy texture evokes a sense of impermanence, while black and white tones simplify the visual language by stripping away the emotional and symbolic weight of color. This allows the viewer to focus on the raw interplay of texture, contrast, and composition, emphasizing the shared elements that unify human subjects and their environments. Multiple exposures transform ordinary spaces into layered narratives where faces and environments coexist, often blending in ways that question where one ends and the other begins.

Place is central to this series, not just as a setting but as a character shaping the individual. Familiar locations, like a childhood street corner or a rooftop overlooking the city, carry memories that tether people to their environments. By layering faces over these spaces, I explore how places preserve pieces of identity, capturing the tension between past and present, public and personal. This fusion of form and content evokes themes of identity, memory, and connection. A face fading into a cityscape symbolizes how urban spaces leave lasting imprints on us, even as we shape them in return. This work invites viewers to reflect on these reciprocal relationships, considering how the places we inhibit hold pieces of who we are and how, in turn, we become part of those places.

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