T R A N S C E N D E N C E

In the late 90s, one of my brothers, who was then in his fifteenth year, went to Viborg, Russia with a charity organization to distribute supplies and help at an orphanage. He got to borrow one of my cameras to document the trip.

When he got back home I got the exposed rolls of film to be developed but somehow one of the rolls ended up among my unexposed film, and a while later it seems to have been exposed again.

The pictures from the first exposure show several of his friends who were on the trip, environments from Viborg and pictures from what appears to be a house party. In the second overhead exposure, I myself am in two pictures, but otherwise the subjects and who photographed are still something of a mystery. A cat reappears several times but neither I nor my brother recognize it. A few elderly people are clearly visible but who they are remains a mystery, and in our living room an unknown, bedraggled young man stands behind a sofa.

The muted colors of the 90s are prominent and the atmosphere in the material feels dreamlike and unclear, like an echo from a parallel reality. The question of who exposed the film a second time remains unanswered.

The double exposure film has been sitting in one of my negative binders for a good 20 years and I rediscovered it by accident while going through and organizing old negatives.

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