photography
Hello friends.
Since last I shared about my adventures in making photos with film and developing them at home, I have switched to using black and white film almost exclusively. The main reason is that black and white is significantly cheaper than color. The second reason is that developing black and white is less finicky - specifically you can develop at tap water/room temp.
The aesthetics of black and white are different for sure and I avoided black and white in the past, cuz I tend to like super saturated colors. But I’m coming around.
What follows are a few of my favorite photos from the past eight months. You might find them boring, that’s okay. Photography is highly, highly subjective. Which I’m learning as I look through book after book of photography monographs and compilations from the library. Some I’m immediately like, do not care! Most I’m like, these are fine. And a very few I’m like, this means something to me.
Which also jives with the photos I make. Most of them are documentary in nature - photos I make of every day stuff and things I see when I travel. Although I like most of the photos I make because they document something I care about, only a few jump out at me as being “good” or somehow transcend the original intent. Following advice that I read somewhere, I made a folder on my desktop where I dump all my “best” photos from the past twenty five years or so - from phones, film and digital cameras.
If any of these resonated with you or if you have any thoughts about them, or photography, or art, or just want to say, hey, I would love to hear from you. I hope you are all doing as well as can be.
Keep loving, keep fighting.
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