OVERLAP: A Collaborative Double Exposure
Format: Film swap
Overlap
Friend, neighbor, and EBPCO fangirl/boardmember Kendra invited me to collaborate with her for the East Bay Photo Collective’s film swap. The results are at turns beautiful/strange/unlikely records from the intersection of intention and happenstance.
The Slowdown
By collaborating via analog, we invited a slower pace, specific risks (mishandling the film as we swapped, misaligning the frames as we loaded it), and the chaos of composing blindly into the other person’s frame.
An Ongoing Project
What began as a one-off EBPCO prompt has grown into an ongoing project. For each swap, we each choose a color to focus on. We don’t tell the other photographer what we are photographing. The project continues as a practice of staying open to the process—and its pace continues to resist the rush.
Kismet! I photograph a friend’s tattoo and Kendra photographs a succulent that echoes the petal structure
Want a Double Exposure of Your Own?
Bid on a signed, framed print from our OVERLAP: YELLOW/PINK series OVERLAP 2285, or other interesting works created by EBPCO members at this year’s East Bay Photo Collective festival.
OVERLAP 2285, up for auction on September 20 at EBPCOFEST 2025