The Analog

Analog photography touches me for everything it evokes.

 

First, there are the emotions: those that arise naturally when you photograph without seeking perfection, simply to capture a true moment. Each image then becomes an instant frozen in time, a sincere trace of a moment that will not return.

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I also like the slightly aged look of the prints, their colors, their grain, that texture that gives the impression that the photo already has a story. Like a memory that you might have found in a box a few years later.

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There's also the spontaneity inherent in film photography. You don't just press the shutter endlessly: every image counts, every moment is felt before it's photographed. This results in more instinctive, more vibrant photos.

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And then there's the gesture. The manual side of photography: choosing a roll of film, inserting it into the camera, advancing the film, waiting for development. This ritual reminds me a lot of my childhood, the first cameras we used without really knowing what the images would look like.

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For me, film photography is much more than a technique.

It's a form of poetry. A way of looking at the world gently, of slowing down, of feeling.

In a way, it's my own personal poetry.