BADFELLA (B-SIDE)

"A distant memory that you have a hard time explaining for anyone that wasn't there. Would they believe you? Even if you had photographic evidence?" Captured by SHANGRILA FILM.

BADFELLA B-SIDE starts from the assumption that photographs don't prove anything.
The collection returns to the same alleyway as the A-Side - the same narrow, uncommitted space, neither fully public nor fully private. The masks return with it. But the B-Side is not a continuation. It is a different kind of problem. The A-Side asked who was underneath. The B-Side asks whether what happened here could be explained to anyone who wasn't present and whether the images we brought back make that easier or harder.
The activities captured in this collection are difficult to account for. We see models attempting to walk up a wall. One figure is suspended in a jump and rendered as two people simultaneously, blurred at the edges with a heavy shadow that is unexplainable. In two images, one model stands physically on top of another, where the human figure is utilised as architecture. These things happened in an alleyway. There are photographs. The photographs look like this.
The editing was mostly done by MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL - the high contrast black and white, heavy film grain, processed toward the visual register of horror games rather than photography. Images that feel documented rather than made. Found rather than show. Two frames carry a visible camera flash which are not corrected and not removed. The blown light stays because it belongs there, because it gives the image the texture of evidence collected under poor conditions by someone who wasn't expecting what they found.
The camera itself was unreliable by design. Motion blur baked into stills. Double exposure without layering. An instrument that witnessed something and then made that witnessing look suspicious.
When the masks finally come off, the second to last image offers what should be clarity. Instead, the subjects are shot at a low shutter speed and appear as residue, physically present in the alleyway but rendered as something between a person and a ghost. Eve without the masks, you can barely see these people. They are there in the photography. They are not there in the photograph.
You were in the alleyway. You saw what happened. You have the images.
Would anyone believe you?
- Kenley
Black and white photograph of a masked figure walking up an alleyway wall at night, surreal urban portrait photography, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Tilted angle black and white portrait of two figures on a staircase, high grain dark photography, experimental portrait Sydney, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
Black and white fisheye lens photograph of a masked figure with a coin-textured texture mask, second figure stacked above, camera rotation blur, surreal alleyway portrait, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white photograph of a coin-textured masked figure in foreground with a second dark silhouetted figure standing elevated above against an alleyway wall, surreal conceptual portrait, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white photograph of a faceless hooded figure standing in a dark Sydney alleyway, dark conceptual portrait photography, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white silhouette of a figure reaching up toward an alleyway wall at night, urban conceptual photography Sydney, BADFELLA, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
Dutch angle black and white portrait of two figures with camera twist motion blur and fluorescent light streaks, experimental portrait photography Sydney, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
Black and white double exposure photograph of a figure in a dark coat dissolving into a metal fence in a Sydney alleyway, experimental portrait technique, BADFELLA, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
High contrast black and white silhouette of a figure resting his foot against an alleyway wall at night, dark urban portrait photography, BADFELLA B-SIDE, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white low shutter speed photograph of three figures in a Sydney alleyway rendered as apparitions, ghost effect portrait photography, BADFELLA, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL × subject@
Black and white night portrait of three figures dressed in black standing in a Sydney alleyway, high grain film photography, dark conceptual portrait series, MINUSELEVEN AUDIOVISUAL
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