siren
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Merging mythological themes with contemporary imagery, this series employs both 35mm and Polaroid film to explore coastal landscapes and feminine power. Set among weathered rocks and tidal waters, the work creates temporal displacement through mixed media, where the immediate intimacy of Polaroid meshes with the timeless quality of 35mm, echoing the duality of the siren archetype itself. Through deliberately soft focus and ethereal lighting, the series subverts traditional femme fatale narratives, instead exploring the space between mortal experience and mythological archetype. Scattered starfish and weathered netting serve as symbolic elements, creating visual metaphors for the intersection of fragility and power, while the resulting images hover in the space between documentary and dark fairytale.
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A dual-format approach utilizing Gold 200's balanced color reproduction for capturing the interplay between sheer fabrics and natural light, while Polaroid 600 adds dreamlike qualities to still life compositions. Half-stop underexposure preserves highlight detail in bright coastal conditions, allowing natural motion blur in longer exposures of wind-caught fabric. The combination of immediate Polaroid development and traditional film processing creates a technical dialogue between instantaneous and contemplative capture methods.
Camera: 35mm format
Film: Kodak Gold 200 + Polaroid 600 -
Model: Hanna Danecker
HMUA: Ellie Danecker
