Dog railing
Expired Ilford FP4+. Double exposure by me.
The dog was photographed on a Cosmic Symbol camera in Cheltenham on April 21st 2014. The railings and steps were shot in Oxford on an Olympus 35DC sometime in the past, probably in 2011. The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014.
This is an unintentional film swap. I originally put this charity shop roll of expired Ilford FP4+ into an Olympus 35DC in 2008, and shot the occasional frame on it until 2011, when the camera got put away in a tidying frenzy. In 2014 I pulled it out to finish the film but by then the battery was dead. I thought I had at least half the film still left to shoot, so I rewound it and put it into my Cosmic Symbol, which would need no battery. I thought I had shot through the correct number of frames with my hand over the lens to get to the unexposed part but evidently I underestimated this because there are a lot of double exposures.
The difference between my life in 2008, 2011 and now in 2014 is represented in some of these images. In many ways they show what my overlapping memories and feelings seem like. They are not a traditional film swap, but the "difference in me" between then and now almost makes up for the two images not being taken by different people, so I'm treating them as if they were.
Because the photograph of the dog orients this as a portrait image the railings and staircase are presented differently. Without the dog there would be little point in putting the photo up "this way round", but since the dog would look silly any other way up the interaction between the paving slabs and the strong diagonal lines of the handrail become part of a new, more formal composition. I am particularly fond of the boldness of the zig-zag lines on the right hand side; I don't expect the architect of the staircase would ever have thought of them being represented in this way.
Dog railing
Expired Ilford FP4+. Double exposure by me.
The dog was photographed on a Cosmic Symbol camera in Cheltenham on April 21st 2014. The railings and steps were shot in Oxford on an Olympus 35DC sometime in the past, probably in 2011. The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014.
This is an unintentional film swap. I originally put this charity shop roll of expired Ilford FP4+ into an Olympus 35DC in 2008, and shot the occasional frame on it until 2011, when the camera got put away in a tidying frenzy. In 2014 I pulled it out to finish the film but by then the battery was dead. I thought I had at least half the film still left to shoot, so I rewound it and put it into my Cosmic Symbol, which would need no battery. I thought I had shot through the correct number of frames with my hand over the lens to get to the unexposed part but evidently I underestimated this because there are a lot of double exposures.
The difference between my life in 2008, 2011 and now in 2014 is represented in some of these images. In many ways they show what my overlapping memories and feelings seem like. They are not a traditional film swap, but the "difference in me" between then and now almost makes up for the two images not being taken by different people, so I'm treating them as if they were.
Because the photograph of the dog orients this as a portrait image the railings and staircase are presented differently. Without the dog there would be little point in putting the photo up "this way round", but since the dog would look silly any other way up the interaction between the paving slabs and the strong diagonal lines of the handrail become part of a new, more formal composition. I am particularly fond of the boldness of the zig-zag lines on the right hand side; I don't expect the architect of the staircase would ever have thought of them being represented in this way.