Tagged: prints

Celluloid Memories

In tandem with scanning old film transparencies, I have been taking photographs on some donated film for the first time in years.

Works in progress

The rolls are black and white print film, the type I roared through about ten years ago when I was printing as many images as I could at various dark rooms across the city.

As I work through the fourth roll, I realise that I won’t have the time to develop my own photos. Also, the usual labs that I went to for prints has now shut. There will be a search for a new lab to post these rolls to.

As I said, I am also scanning through a large amount of old transparencies, which I took roughly between 2005-2010. I am amazed at the quality of some shots and the latitude of tones and colours therein. Most have been on 35mm, but a fair amount have been on medium format film. These latter shots have been stunning to look at.

During the photography webinar I took part in with Wendy Catling and Dr. Natasha Barrett, the convenor Dr. Matt Finch asked us what we wanted to do next in photography. I said that I very much wanted to return to medium format photography, and even try large format photography at some point. Taking photos on film, and looking at the results, has made me very aware of wanting to take time over crafting a photograph in future.

Prints of the City

A few years ago on a walk along Baker Street, I snapped a photo with my phone camera of the sunlight in the morning mist. I was so surprised by the light that I returned the following day to photograph the sight and the light again with my Fuji X Pro-1.

  • Baker Street

During my computer cleanup, I came across this image again, along with a number of others I took in the Regent’s Park and Baker Street that morning. I loved their light, mist and timelessness, and the responses to them on my Instagram feed.

I took a number of photos of each shot: I put four of the better versions of the social media uploads together as prints, which I have placed on sale on my Etsy page. These image represent a look at London that I enjoy: showing a sight that could exist at any time in the past few decades, even with modern shop fronts, clothes and cars; a period view of the present.

London can be viewed in so many ways: as an historical city; as a financial city; as a place of politics and protest; as a place of culture. In my prints, I want to reflect all these different Londons and perhaps show new ones.

My Etsy print page is at: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BurningDetails?ref=ss_profile