Media Omitted is a series of cross-processed double exposures that show the "what-if"s of a relationship – a tasteful mismatch that retraces what went wrong and creates an alternate timeline. A chemical solution as a temporary solution for a relationship doomed to disappear – contrasting with the very medium of analog photography.
Just like the short-lived relationship itself, the analog camera he gifted to me was broken. It was only when I took it to get it repaired that I realized he forgot a half-used film inside. I had to make a grim choice – I could use the film with the risk of finding my own images double exposed with the ones I was trying to forget. Due to the age difference between us, the photographs he took was almost as old as me.
The film was long expired like us and if I wanted my shots to survive, I had to summon the courage and try the cross-process method by developing my diapositives with negative film chemicals and hope for the colors to turn out.
The vibrant pink tint in the images attempts to revive the lack of romance in the failed relationship. From depicting a cold bedroom paired with a close-up of a woman’s thighs to the places never visited; the photographs ultimately reveal serendipity – two travelers who could only meet in the middle after going separate ways. A mantra almost too cliche to repeat: Some people are better when they are apart.