Double Negative Dispatch

Double Negative Dispatch

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When In Doubt, Put Things in Heads

There's nothing wrong with having a formula

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Will Malone
May 04, 2026
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There’s a reason when you search for double exposure photography online, you’ll get a cascade of people’s heads with stuff in them.

Because it works.

Making one exposure is hard enough, that making two that interact together can be incredibly difficult. So when one uses the silhouette of their partner and/or friends, and inserts flowers, trees, or something, anything else, the results are at the very least, eye-catching.

When I came up with the idea for this piece, I wondered if it was too cynical. Like, the idea that you can manufacture interesting-ness by simply blasting sun at someone’s back to steal their silhouette and then imprison another thing within its bounds.

But let’s face it. It works.

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