Asheville fine art Photographer- double exposure photography

Double exposure picture of Olive trees in Andalusia, Spain

It started as an accident…

Double or multiple exposure photography forced its way into my life by a not so happy accident. I photographed my very first wedding back in 1984.

I was a kid helping my Dad out on the weekends with his not so thriving wedding photograph side hustle. His day job was a super fish scientist and the art of the camera was one of his many hobbies. He taught me everything I needed to know for that first wedding. Of course I was just 14 years old and knew everything anyways. (having a 13 year old myself right now, I know the pain my father suffered!!lol)

Anyways, on that fateful day in August we walked into the wedding day armed with 2 Nikkormat FT 35mm cameras and 2 Mamiya RB67 medium format cameras. State of the art gear for back then. We were loaded and ready to make some seriously great photos and some serious $$$. (If I remember correctly we were raking in $350 and delivering a wedding album.) Everything went as planned. Everything worked as it should. Everyone was on time and it was to be a great success. I knew I had made some amazing frames! LOTS of them.(too many?) But wait a minute, you said it was a fateful day!? Just keep reading…

Once back home in our basement darkroom/ laundry room, we loaded the rolls up and started developing the B&W film. (At this time we didn’t have a color set up so we sent it off to Chic’s Camera in Columbus, Ohio and would pick it up the following week.) We hung the B&W to dry and would inspect in the morning. I do recall that my medium format film looked a bit strange but there was something on the film and that is what mattered.

Long story short…er, I had exposed multiple times on single frames of my film! My dad was more than a bit peeved at me. You see, the Mamiya RB67 had a lever, that when cranked, it cocked the shutter to shoot the next picture. It also had a lever to advance the film to the next frame for said picture. I seemed to have overlooked this lever more than a few times. As it turns out about 80% of all of my film had many different scenes stacked upon one another. (in art photography terms, a multiple exposure) But Dad did NOT see the “art” in it! He was pissed. I am fairly certain the client was too. Btw, all of the color film was the same. Sorry Dad.

Over the years I have made many double and multiple exposures. Most of which were on purpose! ;} Here are just a few of my favorites in nom particular order. I might add that when i do “accidentally” make one, I am now over the moon excited about the possibilities that live within the frame. Its kind of like the universe speaking through it to me. (The last frame below, being a grand example of this!)

My name is Parker J Pfister. I live and work as a photographic artist out of Asheville, North Carolina. I do lots of really, really, ridiculously, amazing things, such as portraits, editorial, commercial and fine art photography.

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Double exposure photograph in black-and-white of New Mexico landscape
Double exposure color photograph of the stars and a beautiful woman
Double exposure black-and-white photograph of Cannon Beach Oregon
Multiple exposure color photograph of the grand Tetons national park in Jackson Wyoming
Fine art portrait photograph of man with beard using multiple exposures in camera on a large format 8 x 10 camera
Large format photography multiple exposure a beautiful girl with freckles
Double exposure photograph in black-and-white of the South Dakota badlands in badlands national park with beautiful clouds and mountain peaks
Multiple exposure photography of the flight path of a crow in Paris France off of the steeples of a church
Fine art double exposure photograph in black-and-white of a beautiful woman with clouds in the South Dakota badlands national park
Black and white double exposure of nude woman
Fashion editorial portrait in Asheville North Carolina of young male model using a double exposure in black and white

This one was a happy accident for sure! The bands name is “Life like water”. My camera accidentally made a snap of the water I was standing in…. Happy!

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