Experimental Photography: Perfect Imperfections

Being a perfectionist often hinders the initial processes of creation exploration It brings about the fear of mistakes and imperfection – something that all creatives should learn to embrace, to venture out of their comfort zone in order to break the monotony of their work and avoid falling to the imposter syndrome.

Analogue processes often brings out the beauty of imperfection and it is not something that digitally done works can replicate. Every work of craft is unique to its own. While there are many ways to execute this project, I have chosen film photography becauseof the little ways that restricts the possibility to predetermine how the images will turn out. It forces us to strip off our obsessive need to be perfect and offers us little control over the outcome. To embrace the possibilities of imperfections.

This project aims to experiment film photography through the use of mistreated films, pre-treated with methods that will change the chemical compound of a film, thus creating different unpredictable effects.This compilation includes the usage of expired films and films that have been exposed to heat and pre-soaked with bleach, martell, rice and red wine. All photos are presented in their raw forms – unedited