Analogue (film) photography around Wellington and the other main centers is an untapped wellspring of talent and potentially, a critical material and process to always guarantee photography does not become a sub-genre of digital art.
It is the Feldenkrais principle where the photographer spends more time before capture, fine tuning or waiting for a moment – it is often a boundless experimentation to capture an anomaly. Each film emulsion carries an individual expression of the scene captured and combined
Part of this aesthetic has become increasingly popular with new generation of casual photographer as they suffer digital everything else, pressured for time and challenging themselves and peers for individual expression; film photography offers them all low entry costs and authenticity that is absent in the automated filters ever present on smartphones.
This is a quick look at the individualism of film photography on Wellington streets and further afield.
Thurs 25th from 7pm – Tararua Tramping Club
