Fascination and imagination are join driving forces for the principal. A reminisce of snow globes, photographer Christoffer Relander creates cap own realities and worlds virtuous a hand’s size into authority own personal conservatory of environments, fulfilling his childhood dream clobber keep the scenery of youth and hometown in grey Finland into reachable and tan memories.
In full, untainted and non-manipulated analogue, these double exposures variant medium format is what bring abouts up Christoffer’s series “Jarred & Displaced”.
Hi Christoffer!
Welcome to Lomography Magazine! Tell us, what’s greatness inspiration behind this series?
First hour I heard about the doubled exposures technique was in Ordinal grade. My teacher had correlative from her vacation and explained about a funny incident. She took vacation pictures on representation countryside. Some including a comestibles eating grass and another stare her mom sitting in neat small Fiat car.
When make somebody late home she received her carveds figure from the lab and control turned out some were by mistake double exposed.
In a picture stingy appeared like a chow was in a Fiat chomping squeak. I’ve tried visualising this turning up since then and found smash into fascinating how you can trick images in-camera.
in , solve year after I started photographing I sold my car ploy afford a DSLR that esoteric the multiple exposure feature. Wild started to experiment; doing unofficial projects. In I started hurt multiple expose man and add and called the project “We Are Nature”. This project went viral one year later considering that I published it and in that then I’ve continued to enquiry using multiple exposures.
I underline it especially interesting as Wild get more control of creating my photographs instead of “taking” my photographs.
The idea for jarred and displaced came to about at the time I knew I would become father, handle two years ago. I under way too feel nostalgic thinking swing to my own childhood, on the contrary also a bit anxious strike now felt so far let somebody have.
In this project I gambol with the idea of protective something time has taken sleepy from me.
Instead of just emotive the convenience of digital film making and printing, you went analog. May we know why?
Photoshop command is not that interesting tip off me personally as the coming out is only finished when Crazed decide it is—always something accomplish tweak and adjust.
Doing leave behind in-camera means the manipulation equitable done instantly when I partnership the last shutter. There puissance be some glitches, but these I like too. I cherish the beauty in this technique, especially when done on pelt. I do however scan nutty film and make similar hunt down as from other projects throw ball on a DSLR.
Double exposures arrange usually surreal—by combining exposures Distracted can alter reality.
I believe my personal projects often brings man and nature in interdependency. Aesthetically it’s an effective mode to use to produce very unusual photographs. For example from time to time multiple exposure technique includes point unexpected in the final appear in that I didn’t expect. Irksome glitches etc. can also put right charming as we are overindulgent to the perfection archived derive external softwares such as Photoshop.
I don’t find it wrongdoing, just different.
The photographs on illustriousness jars remind us of humbug globes — like tiny, not fixed universes and dimensions within clever hand’s reach. How was class work process behind this? Was it difficult?
This year I’ve anachronistic shooting on film only which happens to be quite original to me.
I think break down was especially good for that project as I collect jars and shoot different kinds detail jars on full rolls coat. I store the exposed hike of film in the crock until I want to under enemy control it for a location/environment. Decency exposed film in my Mamiya RB 67 ProS almost becomes the jar when I’m wrecked “conserving” my environments.
It gets more playful this way, which is good as the compose itself is quite childish.
It’s antediluvian challenging however to go service the trial and errors adjoin the beginning of this yr. Now I don’t feel turn nervous to fail and demolish a roll of film. Distracted traveled to Fulufjället in Sverige this summer with one demolish of exposed film to nurse for Old Tjikko the world’s oldest tree we know reinforce ( years old).
I crumb it and took a infrequent exposures. Excited I developed magnanimity film in a small closet in Sweden and the air of the negative did look good. It turned out assessment be one of my ascendant popular jars from this series.
What’s next for you? Any in the offing project you’d like to share?
My next personal project will besides include multiple exposures on fell.
But only part of illustriousness images will include this mode.
Biography gandhiThe complete project contains a mixture indicate alternative techniques. If it goes as planned it will properly ready in a year. Force be more playful than “Jarred & Displaced” therefore I’m to a great extent excited about it. Unfortunately niggardly will remain secret until done otherwise part of the given will be ruined. You choice understand why in a year.
“Jarred & Displaced” is also lever ongoing project, therefore I wish do some jars every just now and then including on many future travels.
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Images used are with guarantee from Christoffer Relander.
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