Neil Krug // Multiple Exposure

So, time to start the blog up. I decided to check out Tavi Gevinson's blog for ideas and soon came across some photographs that interested me. The site they were originally featured on is amazing: ISYS There are hundreds of links to photography, film and fashion, particularly from past eras.

"Vintage" is such a huge part of culture at the moment, everything seems to be affected by it.  Teenagers raid charity shops/flea markets for designer clothing and photographers are experimenting with old film cameras instead of digital; Neil Krug's photography is a great example of this.  In collaboration with the model Toni Harbeck, he created a series of dreamy, psychadelic images for the Pulp Art Book using expired film in a Polaroid Land camera.

I think the photographs have a strong 1960s/70s feel; the image above is slightly overexposed which makes the bleeding colours around the subject seem even more vivid and psychedelic. Despite this, it doesn't look brash. The underlying sepia tones throughout Krug's series soften the images and add to their nostalgic feel.

 

As well as the "Pulp Art Book", Krug has photographed bands such as Ladytron, My Chemical Romance and The Horrors. Images of the latter are particularly interesting as they have been double exposed; this can be used to produce a ghostly overlay of a separate image onto the main subject.

  

   

I came across this music video for Maxime Sokolinski's "Feels Like" while browsing the blog Pas Un Autre. Multiple exposure has been used on moving film to create flashbacks and make the video seem like a recollection of memories. Like Neil Krug, the director Eric Wagliardo has used bleeding colour and sepia tones (similar to the effect created by old cameras) on moving film to create nostalgia and reinforce the feeling that the viewer is looking back on the past. The hazy footage of a couple embracing on a beach and jerky rewinding of film throughout the video emphasises Solinski's lyrics of a failing relationship and wanting to go back to better times.