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in Amsterdam for three days and went
through a huge collection of movie films
that were in various states of decay,” she
recalls. Despite an allergic reaction to the
nitrate film, she continued to plough on
with the painstakingly long process. “I
spent ages looking at reels of damaged
and eroded film. Most people would con-
sider this trash, but I think it’s treasure.
Through a laborious, technical process,
I took macro shots from one frame and
stitched those together on a computer to
create images of nature and humans in a
kind of end-of-the-world scene.”
Another of her collections, The
Origin of Love, is inspired by Plato’s
The Symposium. In this, the comic poet
Aristophanes refers to the myth that
people used to be conjoined—were two
people as one. Perceived as being too
threatening to the gods, Zeus cut people
in half and myth holds that humans have
sought ever since to find their ‘other
half’ and feel whole once more. Kristina
used this inspiration to create a series of
photographs showing aspects of real life
couples, intimately intertwined in skin
to skin embraces. In this way she aims
to reflect two people finding each other,
and that love and sexuality can take many
forms between couples of different and
the same genders. *

PHOTOGRAPHY
From the collection Decomposition.