LA on Film

Over the last couple of months I’ve been feeling particularly homesick and have found a good remedy for it. Going to a new area of the city and taking photos on my film camera is the perfect way to see the parts of LA that I normally wouldn’t notice and to bring back a little excitement to an overseas move that has felt, honestly quite hard.

When your eyes are peeled for the perfect photo opportunity, you’re paying full attention to your surroundings. I spend so much time these days in the same places, in the car in traffic, in the windowless office, looking at screens and forgetting that there’s a whole lot going on out there that I’m not seeing, much less capturing. It’s slowly becoming another obsession (which I probably don’t need more of) but it makes me so happy. It’s mostly the colours of this city I love. Often I walk around cringing at the trash and filth everywhere but then I look up and see all these colourful buildings and Mexican grocery stores or street carts, cacti. Oh my god, the cacti! 

But it’s also the anticipation of getting the film developed that gets me feeling like a kid on Christmas. And engaging in something that doesn’t involve instant gratification like most other things these days. Also, I think you could capture anything on a film camera and it would look good, so it’s great when you’re a noob to photography but want to feel like a goddam master straight off the bat. Which, don't we all want? Just me?

Anyway, here’s what I’ve been snapping…