NEWSLETTER

Eydie McConnell and Lewis Chaplin are two 16-year-olds who happened across each other’s photos on Flickr. As soon as one had clamped eyes on the other’s work, they immediately knew that they had to somehow start taking photos together. The only hitch was that Lewis lives in South London and Eydie lives in Long Beach, LA.

Thanks to the power of the internet and with a little cribbing from those parched old Lomography books you find festering in the unloved boxes of rural Oxfams, the pair came up with a plan that would allow them to combine what they were shooting without ever having to actually be in the same place at the same time.

Armed only with a couple of Holgas and some stamps, they began shooting, exchanging and double-exposing film. In non-photo speak, Lewis takes a picture, sends the film over to Eydie in LA, and she shoots over the top it. Simple, eh?

Eydie wears shirt by Lee and jeans by Double M; Lewis wears model’s own t-shirt

Vice: So what the hell’s going on here? I am seeing a guy lying down and another headless guy in a Neu t-shirt in front a magic-eye background thing.

Lewis Chaplin: Ahahahahhaa, that is Eydie and me.

Eydie: You think I look like a guy? Fuck you very much.

Whoops. Not a great start to this little dissection of your work.

Eydie: No. I really like that backdrop, though. It’s just this huge scarf that I pinned up on the wall.

What’s your favourite Neu record, Lewis?

Lewis: Self-titled, obviously. I am actually wearing a bowler hat in homage to my roots here but you can’t really make that out. It looks like I have a plate on my head.


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