Disclaimer: do not try this at home! Ok, now that we've got that out of the way, want to know what happens when you swallow some film? Two Kingston University Students did, find out more after the jump.
Photo of Luke Evans via Creative Review
Is there a limit to what you would do in the name of art and analogue photography? For Luke Evans and Josh Lake, swallowing film to capture their insides is obviously not crossing a line. The two Kingston University students swallowed 35 mm, let their bodies do the rest, and then scanned the pieces of film using an electron microscope.
You’ve seen their insides, now take a look at more of Luke’s work and Joshua’s work.
So, what’s the call? Gross, cool, or both?
This article was inspired by an article in Creative Review
24 comments
alix-mansell
So did the X-Ray damage the film?
paulamonteiroh
gross and cool
adi_totp
Very cool!
popfry
catarella
wow! so cool!
joshualake
eskimofriend
I think it's cool yet do we really see a photograph or just what happened to the layers of the film?
vip223
not gross cool ! except the retrieval of film part....
gabysalas
@joshualake, sorry about that. Article fixed!
hervinsyah
Oh, no. My snail internet connection are too slow to open all of the photo. Does the two artist defecating the cliche that their swallow?
jessye
megkalki
whoa! ballsy men xD
dainy
cool haha
scaryshinigami
pretty cool!
kiri-girl
Ouchies that could potentially hurt your cutter..
superkulisap
I'd say that's nastyyyy
itsdebraanne
i don't get it. how did the film capture an image from the inside??
fabc68
@itsdebraanne: it didn't. According to the authors it got damaged by acids and enzymes inside the gastrointestinal tract and then scanned after having been expelled.
nadinadu
it looks really cool but i don't get it...did they vomit it out again to develop it or something?
itsdebraanne
@fabc68 exactly so where did those images come from?
fabc68
@itsdebraanne: those are scans of the film after it was swallowed and passed (well, except for the x-ray, of course). In practice, it's a chemical process that altered the film, not a photographic one. At least, that's what I understand from reading the original article (sorry in advance to the authors if I got it wrong)
nock
@fabc68 you're correct! The reaction is not made from the contact with light but contact made with the gastric fluids of digestion!
nock
@nadinadu lol no! they pooped them out!
detroitlomo
Wonder what the developing time was. Lol