BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Picture This: Time

For several years, my everyday camera was my grandmother’s old pointand- shoot: a small, handy Olympus. I used it so often that, little by little, it started breaking apart. After spending years in my grandmother’s closet, it found itself over-exploited by an enthusiastic, freshly graduated photographer. Last year, the camera accidentally double-exposed three times the film’s length. For six months, it was rolling back and forth, layering images. Connections were made between various contexts, and this one in particular caught my eye. Both characters are strangely held, in full introspection. The image sums up how I felt during these six months: an incredibly hectic post-graduation phase, with people and work and life becoming fuller by the minute. Those in-between moments, where people around me were taking the time, are the moments that reminded me to breathe as well.