On film, slowly

Over the past few months, I have been photographing with a film camera — in Santorini, then in the Dordogne and the Lot, and most recently in the Yorkshire Dales. Rolls from this trip are currently away being scanned.

There is something deeply satisfying about not knowing immediately. No screen, no instant judgement, no quick correction. The photograph remains unseen for a while, gathering its own distance. When it returns, it often feels less like something I took and more like something I have been allowed to find again.

I am going to share some of these images here, not as a finished body of work, but as a thread I am following.

By no means am I planning to give up using my digital camera, but for now, I am enjoying slowing down, the uncertainty, and the different way of seeing, which this process invites.

All were shot with a Praktica Super TL 1000, and, for those who need to know, on either Kodak Portra 400, Kodak Ultramax 400, Kodak Tri-X 400 and Ilford HP5 film. Probably all rather conservative choices of film, but one has to start somewhere.