Reflection
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This one is about how many versions of a person can exist in a single frame. I built a small mirrored pyramid and shot through it, so the model's face and body kept splitting and repeating depending on the angle. Combined with a mylar and tinsel backdrop, everything in the shot became reflective in some way — nothing stayed still or singular.
The idea wasn't really about distortion for its own sake. It was more about identity not being one fixed thing — the same face shown multiple times, slightly different each time depending on how the light hit it. Sequins on the wardrobe added another layer of that same effect, catching and scattering light the same way the mirrors and prisms did.
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I shot this on Kodak Gold 200 and Revolog Laser. Gold 200 kept skin tones accurate even through multiple layers of reflection, which mattered since so much of the frame was already being broken up by the pyramid and prisms. Revolog Laser has pre-exposed linear light patterns built into the film itself, so those patterns intersected with the real refractions happening in-camera, creating combinations I couldn't fully predict until the film came back.
The mirrored pyramid was the main structural tool — I shot directly through it, letting it fragment the studio space and the model's reflection simultaneously. Handheld prisms added another layer on top of that, positioned at different distances from the lens to control how much of the frame got fractured. Studio lighting had to be placed carefully so it would catch both the mylar backdrop and the prisms without overexposing the sequined wardrobe, which was reflecting light on its own.
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Model | Brittany Clapper
HMUA | Katya Daniliuk
Stylist | Laurel Guido -
Volition Magazine (2016)
