Film Developed: For the First Time.
Though I’m new to the world of film photography, film is certainly not new to the world. Nonetheless, there is something endlessly exciting about the idea of film: how it works by capturing the very light (or lack thereof) within a room or environment, and then is delivered in 2D months later. Receiving my first packet of developed film from the past year left me with a deep sense of nostalgia: here is the cast of light upon objects from a place I’ve left behind, imprinted forever. Film straddles that very fine line between that which is incredibly ephemeral and impermanent, and that which is made eternal. So here are a few snapshots of time and place from my first foray into film, and a few of the impressions these uncovered treasures of existence left on me.
Capturing people I love through film… catching them in amber.
Katie & Mom
Me
EK & Katie
I feel like a stranger to my own life seeing these, because I don’t remember the context or situation of them. What inside joke we were laughing at, what we were thinking and feeling. I guess that’s only for them (the us of then) to know.
Ultimately, what my first roll of film meant to me (not to sound too sentimental and pretentious): film speaks to the human urge to hold on to things, to never let them go. But film allows us to accept the passage of time, and to realize that something is no less beautiful or precious just because it was temporary.
