The all of it all
Expired Ilford FP4+. Triple exposure by me.
Looking into this image I can see several moments. The image of the tent would have been taken by me in August 2013 (since I spent that week in that tent). The image of the shop and the girl walking and the trees was taken on the Cowley Road in Oxford in January 2014; I thought the camera battery was dead at the time but evidently not. Both of those images would have been taken on an Olympus 35DC. There is also evidence of other buildings and a bicycle and these came from December 2014 when I had put the film into a Cosmic Symbol camera to complete it.
The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014. To the right of the image you can see the holes in the film from the clips I used to hang it up after processing.
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 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.
The all of it all
Expired Ilford FP4+. Triple exposure by me.
Looking into this image I can see several moments. The image of the tent would have been taken by me in August 2013 (since I spent that week in that tent). The image of the shop and the girl walking and the trees was taken on the Cowley Road in Oxford in January 2014; I thought the camera battery was dead at the time but evidently not. Both of those images would have been taken on an Olympus 35DC. There is also evidence of other buildings and a bicycle and these came from December 2014 when I had put the film into a Cosmic Symbol camera to complete it.
The film was developed at home by me in Ilfosol-3 for 9.5 minutes on December 7th 2014. To the right of the image you can see the holes in the film from the clips I used to hang it up after processing.
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 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.