Rachel Ferriman

The error was an accident. I was visiting family at their beach house in Jacobsbaai in December, and as we gathered on the porch I tried to take a snapshot. As I positioned my phone, a moving magenta and dashed effect appeared in the lower part of the photo (perhaps the device was overheated).

I took the picture anyway, thinking that the glitch was probably screen-related only and the photo itself would come out normally. I was surprised to see the glitch included in the final photo. I did not want to delete it. It looks as if threads have been pulled in a weaving, dyed, and then reinserted out of line.

Amber Brown

I carried out a project entitled ‘I thought it would last’ documenting what used to be a small market village near my hometown and how the village, Mitford, has lost its rural significance.

The photographs were shot on a Pentax ME Super and it was the first roll of film I had ever processed alone. It was very messy and I ended up with lots of fingerprints, scratches and chemical mishaps, initially I was disappointed but when it came to printing, I fell in love with the shots.

This photograph shows an apocalyptic looking sky which I absolutely love the effect created, where in reality it was a totally unintentionally chemical mishap during developing.

 

 

David Preston

I had been photographing seascapes in the evening using relatively long exposures in order to capture movement in the sea. When removing the camera from the tripod, I accidentally triggered the shutter while a flock of birds were taking off from the rocks.

The slow shutter speed, combined with the movement of the birds and also the camera has created an ethereal image where the birds looks almost like angels or ghosts rising into the air.

Annie Taylor

This image, which is actually stapled to my studio wall, is of my partner in our old garden. It probably dates from around 2002/3.  I had bought a Lubitel Universal twin lens medium format camera from a charity shop and was photographing everything, trying it out. This image looks to be at least a double exposure – possibly three, possibly more, with one slight movement on my part, and that of the subject.

Quite what caused the spiral markings, I don’t know. I developed and printed the film myself, and tend to use out of date paper (other people’s cast offs are a feature across my work) but this effect is on the negative, and no other image had this effect.

Aishling Muller

Blurred lights image – After shooting in a more lit up situation I found myself in a darker part of the square and to focus manually with a rangefinder in this situation was not easy, often I just set my lens to infinity focus in these types of situations but this time I moved the focus in the wrong direction and got this result. This was an accident.
Leica blue – While out on a street walk in Wetzlar Germany, I came stumbled upon the location where the first Leica image was taken, holding one in my hands I couldn’t resist but to capture the moment, only to discover that I forgot to change my white balance setting as well as loosing the control of the camera strap which also photobombs in the image. This was an accident.
Desert Image – While trying to capture the starlit sky in a desert base camp, I began to use the campfire and camp lighting as some foreground lighting for my shots, little did I realise that one of the man who worked there was going to wander into my shot. This was also an accident.

Emma Dove

This image was captured in error during a graduation ceremony in Glasgow, 2016. Inevitably, I was trying to get a photo of the graduate that I was there to applaud, however the light and movement made it difficult.

I like the layering effect captured in this photo and the composition reminds me of a classical painting. Different details reveal themselves when I zoom in to certain parts of the image and it has given me the idea of making a series of works by cropping in to different portions of the same image. I have since tried experimenting to replicate the effect, however this accidental one remains the best so far!

Maria Băcilă

These images are part of a series I did to accompany my artist book with the same name, INBETWEENS, and it’s about being in between things and places and people and countries and homes and sadnesses. It’s a longing for going over the edge of that big thing waiting to happen.

I shot it on film, but because I did it on an automatic camera (my first of this kind, I usually only shoot on manual), I only had partial control over the outcome. They were shot in the space of a month, while I was working on my book, so both projects happened simultaneously. I could not have expressed what I was trying to attain better than with the errors that occurred. Fortunate accidents, mist/missed.

Stephen Irving

The image was purely by chance, I believe it came from an internal error with the photography software on my phone which just happened to take place during the image being taken. The image was captured directly within Instagram, so no further manipulation was added.

No other image from the day or indeed before or since has resulted in the same effect, so it is purely by chance that this image exists. The image was taken of my cousins dog playing on the beach on my galaxy S6 edge phone.

Samuel Lee

Taken on a mobile they failed due to poor quality of camera. A work in progress (with building) and exhibition in an industrial setting of installation Anemones.