Call Me We

Can I see through your eyes and get the whole picture? An archive of unity and duality and the exploration of photography as a playful, collaborative act.

As lovers and a duo working together, we reflect on the extent to which design and technology shape our world and what influence this has on us as social beings and our collective actions. In doing so, we consider everyday structures as elementary moments of communication and social interaction and explore the dynamics of relationship, collaboration and equality in our everyday life.

This exploration gives rise to questions about what a utopian world might look like, that focuses less on the individual but rather on interpersonal relationships and togetherness.

In the series ‘Call Me We’ we capture models and reflections of our interplay using analog and digital techniques of photography and photogrammetry. Some images of the series are taken with self-built technical modules which manipulate the singular act of photography in order to enable a collaborative photographic practice. For our joint photographic workflow we developed a camera system in which two cameras are modified so that images are only captured, when both parties press the shutter button simultaneously. In this way, our photographic decision-making and the captured images are linked in space and time. Additionally, we work with remote triggers that operate on the same principle to enable shared self-portraits.

Under the influence of performative and sculptural techniques, our motifs oscillate between the worlds that we share: Intimacy, virtuality and the everyday.