Repeat Photography is a strategy that can be used to document subject matter, by repeating content to allow comparisons to be made from one image to another. This approach allows cumulative research to be contributed towards, using photography as a mode of communication. By doing this, visual messages contribute to a bigger picture that allows differences and similarities between one place, time or another to be identified and visually represented.
Camilo José Vergara’s series ‘Paired Houses’ documents the front of adjoining houses in Camden (U.S) to show the similarities between them. By doing this, not only do the photographs document a particular time, they highlight the issue of living conditions in the area. Arguably, a singular image would not have as much impact as the collective series, as they demonstrate the scale of a problem, through the use of consistent elements that are captured through the deliberate placement of the camera.
https://www.camilojosevergara.com/Camden/Paired-Houses/1
As Mark Klett writes in Repeat Photography in Landscape Research:
“Groups of images empower relationships between photographs.”
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