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" I loved the way the burned out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture...I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found a way to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it "
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

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as much as i enjoyed taking my flanuer pictures below, it feels very important to me that the images i take for my final piece are not digital. ive expressed before how a digital camera gives me too much choice, too many settings, too many frames, to many colours and editing possibilities. and in the end, all this thought detracts from my ultimate goal as an amateur surrealist, which is chance.

over the next week i hope to find a vessel (ideally on the street) to make my own black and white pinhole camera and i shall experiment with that. at the same time i intend to carry around a colour disposable, because despite desperately wanting to print my own photos, it came to light that the colour was one of the most pleasing aspects to the digital pictures i have already taken, and so to have both and see them side by side would be good.

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