Double Takes


Double Takes is an ongoing photographic project exploring visual echoes that emerge across everyday environments. Each work presents a pair of images that share unexpected formal similarities. Colour, geometry, gesture or spatial arrangement appear to repeat across different places and situations, revealing moments when the visual world seems to rhyme with itself.

These pairings often carry a quiet sense of humour. A posture repeats in an object, a colour reappears in an unrelated scene, or two spaces unexpectedly mirror one another. The images suggest that everyday environments occasionally behave as if they are aware of their own visual logic.

The project reflects on how contemporary visual culture shapes the way we see. Living within a constant flow of images, our perception increasingly operates through pattern recognition, scanning for repetition, symmetry and coincidence. Double Takes makes this process visible by bringing together scenes that appear uncannily related despite being photographed in different locations and contexts.

All images in the series are made using a mobile phone. This choice reflects the everyday nature of the observations and engages with the way photography now exists primarily through portable devices. By working with the same tool that most images in contemporary culture are produced with, the project also challenges lingering hierarchies around photographic tools within photographic practice.

Rather than presenting decisive moments, the work operates through juxtaposition. Each pairing invites the viewer to pause, recognise the visual connection, and perhaps smile at the small coincidences that quietly structure the world around us.

  • The project draws on traditions of observing the everyday within photography and visual culture. Influences include the colour photography of William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, the social observation of Martin Parr, and Georges Perec’s writing on attention to ordinary spaces. It also engages with discussions of mobile photography and networked image culture described by Lev Manovich.

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