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DAY 5 | PORTRAITS |
Double Exposure
KUNIE SUGIURA
For this portrait, I very much wanted to collaborate with the subject, who was an artist and made giant photograms. I asked her if could pay homage to her method, using the same shadowed outline of her subject, but this time it would be of her.
I was shooting with strobe light on slide film, thankfully using Polaroids® to check exposure. So I decided to shoot her against a lit white background and effectively silhouette her against it in the exposure. It worked well, and I had made my version of her photogram, but all I had was a shadow of her! Next I shot several rolls of her smiling, standing ...
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