Here & There photos

Having explored ‘Now & Then’ photos I’ve now been confronted by some ‘Here & There’ images, courtesy of my old friend WebUrbanist in Urban Hybrid: Double-Exposure Photos Fuse London & NYC. 
 

Architect by training and photographer by profession, Daniella Zalcman decided to document her old home town of New York using her iPhone. When she arrived at her new home in Great Britain, she spent time photographing London in the same way. Then…she overlaid the secondary exposures over the first - a Here & There.
 

Daniella created the double exposures from the New York and London images with a little help from photo-editing apps like Instagram.

The results are predictably unpredictable – a mix of juxtapositions ranging from smooth transitional gradients to sharp spatial contrasts, capturing street art and sidewalk scenes as well as broader cityscapes and edge conditions.

In the end, many of the most jarring compositions defy the brain’s desire to organise a coherent narrative, an effect reinforced by the gritty texture and grainy quality of the images themselves.

Daniella Zalcman was born in Washington, DC, she graduated from Columbia with a degree in architecture in 2009. As a freelance photographer, her clients include The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Saatchi & Saatchi, National Geographic, Wired, and The Nation. Daniella has also since launched a Kickstarter project (Kickstart Project creators set a funding goal and deadline. If people like a project, they can pledge money to make it happen) to create a book of these images.