A film swap is a practice used by some film photographers to double expose photographs. Normally it involves 2 photographers but 3 photographers can and have been involved in the practice. How it works is one photographer goes through a roll of 35mm film and once that photographer is finished, he/she sends off the roll to another photographer in which the second photographer pulls out the leader of film and shoots over the previous photographs thereby double exposing the roll.
It's a collaboration between two photographers and two eyes. There are no rules in this practice. The photographers involved shoot over the same roll of film and the resulting photo is an amalgamation of how two people see the world.
I was recently a part of a film swap with another photographer that I met on Instagram and we just got the roll in from the lab and i'm quite surprised with our collective results. In this photo, you see a little girl behind a park bench using a cell phone. Maybe to take a selfie, take a photo or just browsing the web. I shot this photograph. Behind this image you can see what looks like a train yard as there's a tanker train as well as railroad tracks. I like how the train tracks seem to meld and morph into the brick colored cobblestone ground of Olivera Street.
I wish the white wall didn't become so prominent that it takes out a lot of the train yard but there's enough information there to differentiate the two images. I look forward to doing a film swap again with this guy or maybe a different photographer.
"Girl on cell phone/Train yard" / 35mm Kodak Gold 400 / March 2015 / @film_stagram x @grandpanick film swap