Jason Evans

Jason Evans features in Aperture 210, specifically a series of work he's completed where he taken a series of multilayered photographs in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. His technique is to shoot a roll of 35mm film in a given city and then return to the same city at a later date and reshoot on the same roll of film - without any recollection of what image is already stored on the part of the film he is overlaying. This obviously leaves a lot to chance in terms of the outcome, but the results are quite wonderful.

This is a different kind of street photography which moves completely away from the idea of the "decisive moment" because he has limited control over the actual resulting image.

For me, this displays an inspirational amount of confidence and a genuine love of photography and the variance which is at it's heart. Personally, I would find it difficult not to feel frustrated when I processed an image to find that the overlay didn't work, but would have done had the original layer been from the previous image - etc etc etc. That's arguably because I don't have the confidence to follow my convictions - that something will work out eventually. And that I don't love the act of taking photographs enough to allow things to take their own time, but keep committed to the process. Something for me to reflect on.