MILES & MILES

Over the course of June/July 2021, I shot a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 film on my Chinon CX in and around Wellington, New Zealand, taking each shot at half the usual exposure.

I sent the roll to the Netherlands, to Dutch-American photographer Miles Silvagni, who loaded the same roll into his camera and between August and December took another series of half-exposure photos across the Randstad.

The result: a collection of double-exposure photos, revealed when my collaborator received his scans from a local film lab in January 2022. The photos, which range from the incoherent to the strangely evocative, are accidents: we communicated nothing to each other about the subject matter of each photo while the project was ongoing, except for me letting Miles know which shots I took in landscape and portrait, and that the last few would be self-portraits.

Below is a selection of the double-exposure photos which make up "Miles & Miles". My Dutch counterpart has also documented the project on his website.

Double exposure photo #1 Double exposure photo #2 Double exposure photo #3 Double exposure photo #4 Double exposure photo #5 Double exposure photo #6 Double exposure photo #7 Double exposure photo #8 Double exposure photo #9 Double exposure photo #10 Double exposure photo #11 Double exposure photo #12 Double exposure photo #13 Double exposure photo #14 Double exposure photo #15 Double exposure photo #16 Double exposure photo #17 (Self-portrait)

Above: Self-portrait of the contributors.