Analog Corner
I rediscovered analog photography in early 2021 after having used digital cameras exclusively for about 20 years. It became a new hobby of mine and offered some reprieve from the Covid-19 lockdowns in Melbourne.Melbourne spent a total of 263 days in lockdown. For 174 of those days, students had to learn from home. For 151 of those days people were not allowed to travel farther than 5 km from their home. For 122 nights a curfew was imposed on the Melbourne population. The last of 6 lockdowns ended on 21 October 2021.
I took the photo on the right in Feb 2021, four days before the start of Lockdown Three.
For me it captures perfectly the feeling of those days in Melbourne. A masked up frontline worker in a city that had fallen into a deep sleep, at a time when the government had normalised fear and emergency through language and policy response with an emphasis on the use of police and military delivering “public health” interventions, a response that has seen a significant diminution in individual freedoms.
263 days (Feb 2021)
(Leica IIIf, Elmar 5cm, Kodak T-Max 100)
Half Frame Fun
Half frame analog photography provides a unique opportunity for creativity and storytelling. By using a smaller frame size, half frame cameras allow you to capture twice as many images on a single roll of film, providing a good platform to experiment with composition, dyptichs, juxtaposition, and narrative.
The photo on the right shows Elwood's iconic Jerry's Milk Bar.
At Jerry’s
(Olympus Pen F, 38mm F1.8, Kodak Ektar 100)