roarie

november 27th 2014.

met the wonderful, world-travelling roarie for the very first time and we had about two hours taking her portrait for my “born in…”-series and shooting some nudes in the studio as well.it was my first session entirely shot on expired film… in different formats - 4x5” (kodak tri-x pan [exp. 05/1981], 6x7 [kodak tri-x pan - exp. 03/1989] and 35mm [ilford hp5 - expiration unknown/presumably early 1990s].

moreover it was the first time I was shooting */really/* old 4x5”-sheets… and discovered some mould on some of them.
didn’t remove those spots through editing because they let those captures appear somewhat unique - at least in my opinion.

with one year of shooting film exclusively I decided to become more honest about my work - with that in my mind I forced myself to start another project and randomly publish some of my contact sheets.

roarie was the the very first “victim” of that project and although I am not too confident with my 35mm-compositions [I did not shoot that 2x3-ratio for quite some time] it turned out to be an fantastic notion… and I will keep on - promised!

so stay tuned to get an insight on what shots where taken before and after the one you might have seen in my portfolio.

and now for the results of our first collaboration… and hopefully not the last - hope you like them as much as I do!
enjoy!