Environment; Landscape series "Spirits"

After our environment tutorial with Steffi Klenz I got more confident about my idea of  capturing dead people, spirits, by using double exposure as my way of showing they're not alive but dead. Steffi also counseled me to use other landscape than just graveyards, which was what I was first planning on shooting. In our talk I also got more curious about using victorian style photography as in to make the photographs in a shape of a circle.

I ended up taking my first roll with 6x6 Rolleiflex because there was no 6x6 Bronicas left at uni's store, and as I didn't know how to use its double exposure button I took photographs of the landscape with a spirit and without a spirit thinking I would layer the two negatives together in the darkroom. I didn't feel too confident about my first roll so I decided to go out to shoot another one with the Bronica to have double exposure roll as well. The latter roll was a success and I developed four photographs in black and white. 

After my thoughts of wanting to have the spirits in colour and the landscape in black and white I talked with a friend, who gave me an idea to hand colour the spirits after printing them in black and white darkroom. I did some test hand colouring with some other prints and they looked alright, but after I had printed my projects photographs I started to like them as they were. I started to question why would they need colouring; if I'd colour them the spirits would not look as haunting and surreal but more poignant and maybe even too obvious. I decided not to colour them but to leave them black and white.