I'd love to see a combination of Hiroshi Sugimoto long exposures of cinema interiors with portraits from Irving Penn. I am not sure it would work with the different exposure time but it's a fictional combination anyway :D
I would go with Ren Hang and Stephen Shore. A roll of Americana from Shore, and then Ren doing what Ren did best. It would also mean Ren was still alive; his tragic death is something I think about almost daily.
Apr 23, 2023·edited Apr 23, 2023Liked by Wesley Verhoeve
Lovely results! I keep wanting to experiment with darkroom double exposures. This shouldbe fun too!
As for the photography I would truly enjoy seeing Philippe Halsmanns crazy images overlayed with, for example, Sebastiao Salgado’s landscapes. contrasty people+texture seems like a promising combo :)
Oh, the double exposures turned out terrific! What a great give away idea! It would be an honor to collaborate with you.
I have done swaps like these before and loved it.
If I could do a collaboration of my choice I would probably choose Alec Soth and Elliott Erwitt. Although I would be super frightened to screw up the rolls... 🙈
This is not exactly answering the question, since I don't follow many photographers and only know some famous names. But if I were to pick from history, it would be the combination of a small-town kamra-e-faoree user from Afghanistan (these were little booths used to make passport photographs of ppl for important documents) and a war photographer (I doubt the American invasion was shot on film, but perhaps the Soviet one?). Of course coordinating formats would be difficult, time-travel aside (large format film would be a meeting point).
Back to 35mm though, how do you ensure the frames line up? I don't think the spacing is standardised is it? What if you shoot with a Leica M6, and me an Olympus 35RC?
For the double exposure collaboration, I would choose Ansel Adams and Cindy Sherman. I think it would be fascinating to see Adams' landscapes superimposed with Sherman's self-portraits, creating a new and surreal environment. It would also be interesting to see how their differing approaches to photography could complement or contrast with one another in the same frame.
What a great post and inspiration. I've done a project in which one photographer had to react on the previous photo and so on, but this brings it to a whole new level. Wow, I should give this a try.
Gregory Crewdson + Bruce Gildan. Two photographers with substantially different approaches to the form, but who I would be very curious to see if their styles could align in any way. Probably won't end up being chocolate/peanut butter, but maybe cheddar cheese on apple pie? Wouldn't really think it would be good but some people love it!
I love double exposures and there are some great ones here Wesley, including the man and the restaurant menu that you highlighted. I have found though (shooting digital) that correctly exposing both frames often doesn't achieve the best results – too much light from two perfect exposures can overexpose the final frame. It may be different shooting on film. In my experience you have to do some mental math between the two exposures to achieve a 'good exposure' on the double, so one frame being slightly too dark, the other being slightly too bright – but of course it's always a dance as per the light in each shot, and the beauty of double exposures is that anything goes, there are no rules. What's a 'perfect exposure' anyway?
What an intriguing way to work; I love these results. My photography has been languishing quietly a bit lately, but this made me feel a spark of excitement. I’d love to try layering double exposures, both myself and with a friend/fellow photographer.
My pick for a combination would be Andre Kertesz's introspective photographs of little household objects layered with Willy Ronis's wonderful photographs of people. Both bring such a humanity to their work. I think it could be really interesting to see that juxtaposition.
I'd love to see a combination of Hiroshi Sugimoto long exposures of cinema interiors with portraits from Irving Penn. I am not sure it would work with the different exposure time but it's a fictional combination anyway :D
Those look great! Why not setup an exchange program for multiple Process readers to give it a try?
My two picks from the past:
- Robert Capa, to add some structure or patterns to his war/docu shots;
- Neil Armstrong, this is a bit of cheat, anything to make some double exposed shots with a roll of -film that was on the moon ;-)
Very cool results. I love the airplane. I would go with Andoni Beristan and Mous Lamrabat. I think the results would be really interesting.
Hmmm. Let's go with Ansel Adams and Vivian Maier. Nature/Urban mash up!
I would go with Ren Hang and Stephen Shore. A roll of Americana from Shore, and then Ren doing what Ren did best. It would also mean Ren was still alive; his tragic death is something I think about almost daily.
Lovely results! I keep wanting to experiment with darkroom double exposures. This shouldbe fun too!
As for the photography I would truly enjoy seeing Philippe Halsmanns crazy images overlayed with, for example, Sebastiao Salgado’s landscapes. contrasty people+texture seems like a promising combo :)
Oh, the double exposures turned out terrific! What a great give away idea! It would be an honor to collaborate with you.
I have done swaps like these before and loved it.
If I could do a collaboration of my choice I would probably choose Alec Soth and Elliott Erwitt. Although I would be super frightened to screw up the rolls... 🙈
This is not exactly answering the question, since I don't follow many photographers and only know some famous names. But if I were to pick from history, it would be the combination of a small-town kamra-e-faoree user from Afghanistan (these were little booths used to make passport photographs of ppl for important documents) and a war photographer (I doubt the American invasion was shot on film, but perhaps the Soviet one?). Of course coordinating formats would be difficult, time-travel aside (large format film would be a meeting point).
Back to 35mm though, how do you ensure the frames line up? I don't think the spacing is standardised is it? What if you shoot with a Leica M6, and me an Olympus 35RC?
For the double exposure collaboration, I would choose Ansel Adams and Cindy Sherman. I think it would be fascinating to see Adams' landscapes superimposed with Sherman's self-portraits, creating a new and surreal environment. It would also be interesting to see how their differing approaches to photography could complement or contrast with one another in the same frame.
They look so cool! I would love to see the results of Vivian Maier and Eve Arnold in one roll
I think it would be cool to see Andre Wagner with a street shot and Matt Day with a texture shot.
What a great post and inspiration. I've done a project in which one photographer had to react on the previous photo and so on, but this brings it to a whole new level. Wow, I should give this a try.
How about Saul Leiter’s rainy windows mixed with Scott Strazzante’s shooting from the hip?
Gregory Crewdson + Bruce Gildan. Two photographers with substantially different approaches to the form, but who I would be very curious to see if their styles could align in any way. Probably won't end up being chocolate/peanut butter, but maybe cheddar cheese on apple pie? Wouldn't really think it would be good but some people love it!
I love double exposures and there are some great ones here Wesley, including the man and the restaurant menu that you highlighted. I have found though (shooting digital) that correctly exposing both frames often doesn't achieve the best results – too much light from two perfect exposures can overexpose the final frame. It may be different shooting on film. In my experience you have to do some mental math between the two exposures to achieve a 'good exposure' on the double, so one frame being slightly too dark, the other being slightly too bright – but of course it's always a dance as per the light in each shot, and the beauty of double exposures is that anything goes, there are no rules. What's a 'perfect exposure' anyway?
What an intriguing way to work; I love these results. My photography has been languishing quietly a bit lately, but this made me feel a spark of excitement. I’d love to try layering double exposures, both myself and with a friend/fellow photographer.
My pick for a combination would be Andre Kertesz's introspective photographs of little household objects layered with Willy Ronis's wonderful photographs of people. Both bring such a humanity to their work. I think it could be really interesting to see that juxtaposition.