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Film Swap with Sam #3
Part of what I love so much about the Utata community is the alchemy.
A few years ago, the “Double Exposure Film Swap” project came into being: Utatans paired up, shot some images on film, and then sent the film back and forth to shoot again. It happened in the way a lot of our projects happen: somebody said “Hey, let’s try this,” and then some folks tried it, and it was terrific. And then, inevitably, someone said “Let’s do it again!”
Take this series, for instance — an international collaboration between our own Sam and Martin. I don’t know what possessed either of them to choose the subject matter they did. For all I know, there might be more to the story, or there might be less. Given the limitations of format (which, creatively, weren’t limitations at all, were they?), the images were entirely secret, even from the photographers, until the film was developed and the results were revealed.
In the end, what we see are whispers of one place to another. Matter, light, chemistry, and time are transformed into something lyrical, something that tells a human story even as it mingles wood and stone. The results are, in a word, magical.
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