Negatives

Story behind the shots:

Lately I’ve been shooting a lot of film with the amazing Mamiya RZ67 and have been very inspired by all the things you can do while in the development process, like only develop parts of the negatives, scratching it, double exposures etc. It’s almost like going back to the basics in a way. A perfect example and master of this is Man Ray. I’m so fascinated that photographers like him came up with ideas like this and had the knowledge how to do it – 80 years ago! This is a lot of decades before Photoshop came along…

I’ve tried to take this to the digital format as well as you can see in the images, inverting the colors in some parts of the images. Even though I like the effect I thought the images looked a little flat and boring so I added the flowers in various places to get a little more life to it.

I’m in a period now where I find experementing is more giving to me than rather making a plain fashion/beauty image, which can be beautiful too of course, but for me right now, more is more – for better or for worse.