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"Blinding Light"
I also grew up and still reside in the larger nation-state of DIY punk, where I taught myself to make my own noise on gear that no one loved anymore. I transferred these same ideals to learning photography on my own with half-broken cameras and film that was sometimes, but not always, 20 years past its expiration date. The journey has yielded mixed results, but I love film photography and the ways in which it wields imperfections, uncertainty and pure magic.
Thank you for wandering through these castle halls with me and thank you to Jacob for letting me drive some nails into these old stone walls. These photos were taken on a variety of films, both gifted and purchased. The cameras used were a Nikon F2 that was given to me after it sat on the shelf in a Berkeley laboratory for years, a Canon AE-1 that was found by an employee at my local food co-op, a borrowed Yashica-A found in a junk shop in central California by a now-dead friend, a Holga 120S that I found in a free box at a punk house and a Mamiyaflex that doesn't have a story. Drop a line: PO Box 40786, San Francisco, CA 94140
