7 days, 7 rolls of film, 7 really good photos
I’ve just realised these are all real numbers! Exactly one week after I started my “Roma kids” portrait project, I ended up with 7 rolls of film and 7 “best photos”. Not to mention that 7 rolls makes 70 frames! :)
Anyway, this has been a tough week! Being there, at Roma settlements under Gazela bridge, almost every day… not an easy thing to do! Physically, mentally, financially! Matt and Sanja can tell you even better—sometimes they’ve been there a couple of times a day!
At first I had a bit of trouble working with Pentax 6x7 cm camera (borrowed from Luka), but not because it’s complicated. The whole way of seeing pictures with medium format camera and film is just different. I realized I became too spoiled with digital. Take a bunch of photos, variations of the same scene, even the identical frame (for no reason), don’t pay attention to details, contrasts—that’s not the way it works with medium format/film.
So, in a sense, this week has been all about film “rectifying” my way of working. But, it payed off, a lot! Thank you film! xoxo
