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Marie-Christine Razaire: With a Contax G2, things go to a whole other level.
"Still in love with my original contax despite venturing to other models." Tell us about yourself. 27, New York, Catastrophe Insurance When and how did the film journey begin for you? While I shot photos at parties with disposables for fun, my uncle giving me his contaxg2 to shoot in 2011 took my interest to a whole other level. What Could we always find in your gear bag? At least 3 different types of rolls- as a women I have enough in my bag as it is. What camera makes you
Hannah Shufro: Emotional involvement in every roll
"Since I picked up a camera, I’ve also started seeing new beauty in old routines and frequent stomping grounds." Tell us about yourself. I am 24 years-old! I graduated from Brown University in Providence, RI in 2014 and I’ve been living and working in New York City since. I live in Greenwich Village with my 95-year-old grandma and I currently work as a recruiter for a technology company in the Flatiron District. I graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies and Community Health and my
The Rescued Film Project: Forgotten rolls of film deserve to be seen
"There have got to be thousands if not millions of rolls out in the world that needed rescuing." Tell us about you. How did this idea come to you? Why do you do it? My name is Levi Bettwieser, i'm the founder and film technician for The Rescued Film Project. I am a full time video producer at the world's largest health and fitness website, bodybuilding.com. I freelance as a commercial film photographer in my spare time, LBcustom.com. When I first moved from shooting digital to film, I q
Trey Pentecost: Simple, common experiences on film
"Some good friends gave me a Mamiyaflex and a few rolls of T-Max. I was hooked." Tell us about yourself. I’m 39, live in New York City, and run a small IT services company. I also occasionally shoot photos for money. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I guess when I was a kid. I used to love playing with cameras whenever I could, and I'm sure I wasted plenty of my parents' film. I got into it seriously in 2005 when some good friends gave me a Mamiyaflex and a few rolls o
Jo Seaquist. More life, more feeling, more film.
"Film is so atmospheric, I fell so hard for it." Tell us about yourself. I’m from Los Angeles but now I live on the central coast. Rolling hills, vineyards, sweeping roads. Always the ocean. The light changes so quickly, there’s no controlling it, you just have to flow. When you come here, it takes you in, like you could stay, live this dream. I’m an artist. I was a painter. I’d often combine several paintings on the same panel with text…I was after something more alive, like our experien
Kristen Sciberras: New experiences on a daily basis
"I feel the most true to myself while I'm traveling, experiencing new things on a daily basis." Tell us about yourself. I grew up in the Pacific North West in the city of Vancouver, BC. I moved out at the age of 17 just two hours north of the big city to the ski town known as Whistler to work part time in a snowboard shop and to shoot freelance work as much as I can. When and how did the film journey begin for you? For as long as I can remember my parents have always been artistic, my
Body language on film by Dominic Zingale
"To inspire others to use film as a medium always brings joy and satisfaction as an artist." Tell us about yourself. I’m 27 years old, I’m from South Florida and I’m a graphic designer and photographer. Fujifilm GX680ii / EDC 180mm f3.2 / Fuji Velvia (1997) / Tetenal E6 / Epson V600 When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey began while I was in high school. It was something that I stumbled over accidentally. My professor mixed up my classes in my sophomore year
Film can open up a whole new world. By Sean Lewis
"I’m going to shoot film till the very last roll." Tell us about yourself. Hi! I’m 29 and I live near Charlotte, North Carolina. I work in research and development for a specialty chemicals company. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I’ve started dabbling in film in late 2012, but I didn’t devote myself to film exclusively until the beginning of 2015, specifically medium format film. Though I never really found my voice with 35mm film, those first rolls taught me more ab
Instant moments with Sarah Elise Abramson
"Instant film will forever and always be very unpredictable" Remember Sarah Elise Abramson? We posted her article a while ago and now it's time for another one! When and how did you discover instant film? I honestly don't remember how I discovered instant film. I think I was already doing work in the darkroom when I found out that Polaroids could function as a usable and fun medium. I would just take photos of my friends and my feet and things like that. What type of instant film do y
Chicks by Menna Ismail
"I would say that I never actually knew how to shoot photographs, until I started to use film. " Tell us about yourself. I am 22, born and raised in New York City. I am student, studying Advertising and Marketing at The Fashion Institute of Technology. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I used to be a digital photographer. I embarked on the journey of film this summer, when i realized how much the advanced editing tools were depreciating the art of taking a picture. To me
Film therapy from Kimberly Seabury
"I acquired an old Pentax film camera, and I was determined to figure it out." Tell us about yourself. I will be 28 years old this coming December, and I’m currently residing in Salem Oregon. I work as a Photo Technician at Photovision Film Lab also located in Salem Oregon. It’s a wonderful lab where I get to do all my own negative scanning and color correcting. When and how did the film journey begin for you? First I’ll tell you how my photography journey began. When I was 15 years ol
People on film by Lester Cannon
"The photos came back great and I was sold on film from then on." Tell us about yourself. I am from California but currently living in Germany. When and how did the film journey begin for you? When I got back into photography in 2011 I noticed that many of the photographers who I admired or thought their photos had a unique look were film photographers. After seeing the amazing results that film could produce I decided I needed to shoot film also. I had no clue what to buy and my fir