New Work

One of my jobs for today was to make progress processing the backlog of exposed film.

Processing film is a curious task - it requires strict attention to detail but is mind-numbingly boring.

Each run of film is one half hour of utter boredom, punctuated at the very end by a burst of excitment when I pull the film out of the drum and take that first look at the negatives.

Even the process of judging the negatives is fraught with peril. It turns out the pair on the left, which look blank and boring in this photo, are actually a very exciting scene of a tree silhouetted in the fog, with the sun shining through the fog and appearing as a bright disk.

The ones on the right, which look exciting in this photo, are actually a disappointment although I was quite excited when I made the exposure.

Photography, like life, is like that.