35mm film canister, 36 black and white exposures, boxed (57×38×36mm)
Overview
A story on 35mm camera film about knowledge, frustration and exclusion.
Background
I’m interested in photography. Kind of. On the one hand, I don’t really like taking pictures of people. On the other, I like the tactile sensation of a good camera. I could probably save a lot of money and heartache by just pressing the shutter button on an empty film camera every now and then, but I persist in taking pictures even though most of them are terrible.
Anyway, I’ve been trying to intersect photography with storytelling for a while now and this is the most complete experiment so far. It starts in an art college, with a professor asking “Do you want to know the secret of film photography?” and it goes on from there.
I thought I would have to use a copy stand and a lot of printed cards for each ‘page’ of the story, but in the end I just took pictures of my monitor.
I’m not entirely convinced my ancient Pentax ME Super is working properly. I probably should have manually set the exposure, as the white text on black background (inverted on the negatives) look quite blown out. The scan here makes them look unreadable, but the real thing is quite legible.