“Not What You Think” is a collection of artwork that was created using a process that isn’t normal, AKA Experimental. Throughout 2024-25 I have curated photographs through using expired film. Expired film gives an image a certain aesthetic that can only truly be found through that process. I have also started to mess around with double exposed film. This is when the film in the camera is being exposed twice to the light therefore burning two images into one frame. It doesn’t happen perfectly every time but it’s super cool to see what spaces in time you can smash together.

Throughout the history of photography people have been trying to perfect the imagery of photography. It first was introduced as black and white and then in 1851 a man named Levi Hill Claimed the invention of a color photography. It wasn’t until the early 1900s where color photography really took off. Once color photography began to gain traction, big brands like Kodak and Ilford started dipping their hand in colored film and then photography really blew up. Everyone became obsessed with trying to capture pieces of reality for how it truly is.

This is one of my most recent double exposed expired film photos. The way that the branches flow in and out of the columns of the building has me staring for a while.

Throughout my time using photography I have learn all of the basic techniques along with some advanced ones, enough to have a good understanding of how to take a photo with the right ISO and aperture depending on lighting and roll of film. There’s just something I enjoy about giving up the little control I have over photography and see what comes out on the other side. I feel like there are endless rabbit holes I can go down within testing if I can learn how to work consistently with uncontrollable techniques and hopefully create beautiful imagery from it.