I have an axiom I live by when I am photographing my travels, especially for leisure: If i can Google the photograph I’m about to take, why take it? Nothing against stock or documentary photography of course – the idea here is that I want my work to have my fingerprint on it. This has saved me much time and to be honest, much money – it’s led me down weirder streets, made me ask harder questions, pressed me to come up with more interesting ways to frame my travel experiences.
This is what makes double exposures so attractive to me. It’s not the act of photographing the thing that is central, it’s its juxtaposition with something else. The contrast is the point; the pairing of the images, my artistic action – my fingerprint. There’s usually a subconscious element at work too, because i can end up with dreamlike and surreal exposures unexpectedly.
I create all of these exposures in camera. My little Fujifilm X100s has been the weapon of choice for these artworks since 2013.
The images featured here are from my 2017 trip to Hong Kong. You can see another gallery of double exposures from London 2019 here.
To see more of my travel photographs, check out my blog.