Two Women Walk Into One Memory
Some portraits look at you. This one is trying to remember your name.
Two faces occupy the same body, drifting in opposite directions. One turns inward in cool blue while the other lifts toward warmer light. A city sits low in the image, almost embedded in the shoulder.
Double exposure gives the portrait its logic. Photographers were experimenting with multiple exposures in the 19th century, sometimes accidentally and sometimes deliberately. The technique later became associated with ghost photography, but it can also suggest memory, time and multiple selves.
Here, place and identity overlap rather than line up neatly. The portrait feels less like a record of one instant and more like several moments trying to occupy the same frame.
FUN FACT
Multiple-exposure photography dates back to the 19th century and was famously used both for experimental portraiture and fraudulent “spirit photography.”
