My Submission Entry for the Playbook Competition 2025 - "Hidden in Plain Sight"

A personal project highlighting an experimental approach through photography, film negatives, and creativity. I transmute modern technology and analog film to create distinctive imagery. I made a literal multiple exposure, but did multiple negative films layered together to create a unique frame and narrative.

This competition has inspired me to revisit my long-lost idea centered around my collection of 35mm negative films. During my travels and visual explorations, I envisioned creating multiple images that tell a story within each frame. By combining different negatives, I aim to create new moments into entirely new frames and visual narratives. Using the unique qualities of traditional negatives—such as their graininess and imperfections—along with modern technology like Photoshop (laying all the layers together) and GIF Maker, Playbook built-in Mini App tools, I fuse these processes to present the photographs in a dynamic way, and I hope to showcase the artwork in an engaging and unique manner. In terms of visual storytelling, I focus on 1 or 2 frames, trying to stretch the narrative outside its boundaries to recreate a different visualization. I combined different negative frames that work together. That is, maybe, locations, subjects, structure, composition, or certain elements that can make sense or enhance when layering them together. There are a lot of trial-and-error processes, and usually, it comes to me when the procedure is working or not.

PROJECT: Ongoing, 2025 (Photos Taken between 2014 - 2020)

FOCUS: Scanned 35mm Film Negatives

NOTE:

You can see every high-resolution scanned negative that I layered together in each GIF as a group.