I shot my movie “Hustler White” in 1995 at various locations in and around Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.It was the last gasp of male street prostitution on the Boulevard, and “Hustler White,” although a fiction film, also served as a documentation of that sordid and storied street scene. I was shooting productions stills on film at the time, and I had a camera that sometimes, when a roll was finished, didn’t rewind completely, so I wasn’t always sure if the roll had already been shot (exposed) or not. This resulted occasionally in me shooting a roll twice, resulting in double exposures. In the case of these 37 images shot during the making of the movie (actually 74 photos taken altogether), the result was rather spectacular, superimposing different scenes from the movie, both indoor and outdoor, over one another to a startling effect. Purely unintentional, the images enact a certain magic that could have never been consciously conceived.

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– Bruce LaBruce, 2025