Things happen right

The film. The girl. The pose. Though the scan is just terrible I think you still see what I'm talking about.

I'll be back...

She's strange

Moving on

As I've told you once again (I think), in the past I've always stopped projects in the middle and moved on to something new and fascinating. The cause of this? Maybe I get bored easily. Maybe I've never had an audience to tell me what they think about what I do and that kept me quite unpassioned. Sharing "the schoolyear project" on the internet, people get aware of it. Even people that participate by being shot and people that I see everyday.That's kind of interesting. One of my subjects told me yesterday that it would be a nice idea to have all the photos printed and joint in some kind of yearbook. We will see. I still have tons of wonderful projects in mind but this time I'll do this 'till the end.

About the film: It's Ilford Delta 400iso and it's GRAINY. Usually I get sharper images, even with expired film (that I almost exclusively use). I can only guess that the film was pretty old.Or the developer. Anyway, it's a different result than the photos shot on the tmax 100 but I kinda like it. I'm definitely proud of those.

A little chit- chat

Wanting to post hear my (oh-so-many) complaints about carnival I realized that last year I did the same thing. Wow, I've had this blog for almost one year and a half now.
Anyway. I guess I'll be a much more negative person than last year but things aren't the same in the country anymore, huh. So let's talk about Patra's carnival. Patra's carnival has groups of people wearing the same disguise and partying all together. The themes have types:
a. inspired from dumb, mainstream tv series
b. the inspiration doesn't matter, but the skirt has to be shorter than any other
c. combine a and b

Carnival in Patras is all about showing off and getting incredibly drunk and incredibly broke. And even though I have less oppositions about the second part, the whole three days make me sick. The flow of people coming in and going out of the city and the loud music and stuff. Feels like the city is getting violated.
And, I'd really wonder why the mayor would want this shit happening to the town IF I didn't know what the mayor had in mind. I mean, cooooome on, people are dying out there, people's electricity and water gets cut off, they become homeless, and all you spend money on is creating big boobed 3 meter high figurines that people get to see for three days. That's bullshit.

To be clear, I don't reject the whole meaning of carnival, just the thing it's become in this city where I live. I might dress up even this year, who knows. I'll just avoid the places "in fashion"

Orange

People that won't notice you

Street photography is a thing I've always been afraid of. To intrude in the privacy of other people. Even though I've done it in multiple ways (in good ways only). So even when I shoot in the streets, I try to be as discrete as possible. With my big strange cameras though this becomes an issue. So I shoot people when they don't look at me.

New year's eve

I normally wouldn't post this picture, but it challenges my eye. It is a posed portrait of a woman and her three daughters. The three of them look like her in a different way and they make a troubling sight, but a nice one indeed.

Luxembourg, the sequel

I developed one of the two rolls of film I shot in Luxembourg (plus some photos in my retina that won't appear in public if I don't find a light meter). The results were average : many whoopie travel pictures but amongst them some good ones. I completely love this one, without being able to define why.

Divine Slide Film

I've received the scanned slide film today. Although the scanning was deceiving (I know the people in the photography shop meant no harm, this film just needs a crazy professional scanner), I managed, after some light Ps, to make them look like the originals. Have I told you how much I love slide film??

Above are some pictures from the schoolyear project and a bonus one.











PS: the third one looks nothing like this in the original. I'll get it re-scanned soon but I couldn't resist posting it. Even though it has a false bokeh

Yet again...

How many are there in my school year? maybe 90 people. I've already shot 12.
Big projects, the ones that last more than a day, I've never done. So I'm excited about this one...