FOR THE LOVE OF A FILM ROLL

A QUEBEC PHOTOGRAPHER DECIDED TO IGNORE THE MODERN DIGITAL CAMERAS. INSTEAD, HE TURNED HIS EYES TO THE OLD FORGOTTEN CAMERAS. A SMALL ROOM INSIDE OF HIS HOUSE BECAME "THE DARKROOM."

- CATALIN CROITORU

The beauty is that I can do whatever I want with a negative film. - Jean Lapalme

In an era where the digital camera creators are competing with each other in a matter of megapixels or sensor sizes, some photographers decide to go back in time and give a new life to the old dusted analog cameras. In the last two or three years, taking pictures on a 35 millimeters film became, little by little, a trend and as pandemic as the COVID-19. All over the world, people were captivated by this new photographic wind and started to search, buy or sell the grandfather's old cameras. This trend soon became a profitable business; the so-called vintage cameras were started to be sold at so much increased prices that sometimes their value was pumped up up to ten times compared to the initial selling price.

Consequently, the rolls of film, the classic size (35 mm) or medium size, started to pop-up for sale everywhere in the world.