Did you know film
I did. I was born in 1975. Heard a lot of fun things about the 70’s that I don’t remember. I do remember the first time I saw a polaroid my dad took of me when I was 4. It was me just few minutes ago standing there and now i’m standing here looking at myself standing there…..it was time freeze and I loved it. I remember my moms blond hair that looks orange because the sun bleached the photograph on the dashboard of my fathers truck. I remember the smell of the developer in the darkroom at 21. And the romantic naive thoughts of a life as a film photographer in the tranches of fashion and advertising.
How do you touch, smell, feel a memory – film. These are the days when we were full of dreams and hope, full of youth and love for what we did. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th floor of a red brick building buzzing with ideas running between floors of photographers, writers, painters, stylists, make up artists and graphic designers.
The flirting with city life and big careers. We made it, we got it all on film, our youth, our passion, all wrapped up in rolles of it. The ” good old days ” of coffee and cigarettes, grain and experiments, grunge and excruciating excitement to see if we captured the moment or just missed it and the surprise of the unexpected. Living in the unpredictable moments and imperfectly perfect.
Years of folders with negatives and prints lying somewhere in the dust and darkness, left behind in exchange for captured faces in pixelated expressions floating about in cyberspace. This is all I have left from the days of gelatine, chemicals and paper. Maybe i’l come across a camera in a second hand shop, sleeping, resting, waiting to see again and maybe one day I will go into the darkroom again.
Thank you for the memories made Mark Lanning, Mickey Hoyle, Debbie Jean Olley, Simone Norton, Ulrica Knutzdotter.
learn how to develop your own film
Credits:
Video: “Coffee and Cigarettes” / director Jim Jarmusch / You Tube
Article: Kristina Stojiljkovic
Link: “A Beginners Guide” / Lomography
Photography: Kristina Stojiljkovic