While investigating techniques to alter disposable cameras, I came across a featured artist on the Top 20 camera hacks page called Thomas Anderson.
The link featured on the page took you to a set of his images he took on a disposable camera which he then threw it into a swimming pool.
The resulting images created blends of numerous colours which gave them a really surreal look. The dots throughout the film make them look almost like miniature galaxies. I’m really intrigued to know what happened to the second image to create such a result, but unfortunately the link on his flickr page to his blog is broken and so I know nothing about the actual process of these images.
However, I began searching through his flickr and found that he had a lot more albums with damaged photos that have all been damaged in different ways.
Finding Anderson’s images gave me a great starting point for my own ideas. It was really helpful to see someone else’s work who had experimented with loads of different things. But also, the majority of these images were in a photo set called “damaged” on flickr, which is a group dedicated purely to shots made with damaged or by damaging film. It was really helpful in giving me loads of other ideas as well as these. Despite this being massively helpful though, I want to make mine slightly differently, in that I’ll be using elements that people associate with their identities to destroy the film. So instead of just generally using chemicals or techniques, I’ll be specifically destroying each piece of film in a way that’s linked the person in the photographs.
Amy Elizabeth Photography 