[en] January: Ecosystem, City, and Individual
In Seattle, I set out to capture the relationship between the city and nature, but a mistake changed my plan: a film roll previously used in Brazil created double exposures. The result was an unexpected series where human figures and landscapes intertwine, revealing fragmented connections.
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The first month of Dosis Diaria 2025 took me to Seattle, a city I visited for work and decided to explore through analog photography. Before starting, I wrote down some questions and themes I wanted to address: the city’s relationship with nature, lost connections with the ecosystem and Indigenous peoples, and the political context of the moment. I arrived on January 20, the day Trump began his second term—backdrop of uncertainty and change.
For this month, I used two color film rolls: a Reflx Lab 400 Daylight and an ORWO WOLFEN NC400. I focused on parks and areas with views of Puget Sound and the surrounding mountains, searching for traces of the city’s connection with nature. However, an unexpected mistake changed everything: the Reflx Lab 400 roll had already been used on a previous trip to Brazil, resulting in double-exposed images.
This photographic accident completely altered my plans. Many photos were ruined, but others revealed unexpected compositions that, in an abstract way, seemed to answer my initial questions. People and urban landscapes merged with skies, water, and structures, creating images where the human and the natural overlapped and blurred. Instead of a clear documentation of Seattle, I ended up with a series of images that speak of fragmented connections, ecosystems persisting amid concrete, and how history—even personal history—seeps into what we try to capture.
The result wasn’t what I expected, but it was revealing. This month reinforced the unpredictable nature of analog photography and the way mistakes can open up new interpretations.
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